God saved me and offers me life and forgiveness. This must mean that God wants my life to be happy and go the way I envision it. If hard things happen to me, this makes me question if God is reliable. If my life picture is not coming true, it must mean that either God is punishing me or He is not who I thought He was. If a tragedy happens in my life, it must mean that God is either incapable or unloving. Either He was not capable of stopping it—which means I now have a crisis of faith—or He doesn’t love me (or is punishing me or cursing

