“God, I’m tempted to lose hope because my dreams are shattered. I’m in so much pain, but I don’t see you fixing things, and that hurts, too. I know you see my pain but I wonder if you’ll do anything about it. I question your plan, why you aren’t stepping in or healing this.”

I wrote these words in my journal during a time about 8 years ago when God felt silent.

Have you ever felt like God is silent in your struggle or pain? Doesn’t He care? Doesn’t He see you’re hurting, lonely, and rejected? You hold onto hope with everything you have. You cry out in anger – but God seems so distant. Why isn’t God answering? Isn’t He listening? Why is He silent? The silence after a noisy, traumatic event like a marriage ending, an admission, a confession, or a long, cold distance in your marriage, leaves you in shock, feeling abandoned and surrounded by deafening silence. 

What do you do now? Suffer in silence? 

If you’re in a season of silence, feeling like God just isn’t interested in your suffering or in healing or restoring anything in your life, here are 4 steps to follow when God seems silent.

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