Each of us wants so much assurance, and there really isn’t much. We religious types think God’s love, closeness, and grace are the answers to all of life’s pain and general horribleness. But then something bad happens to our children or our health.
It was confusing and moving quickly away from the conversation focusing on self and got into that whole child thing -not that it is not important and relevant- but I needed to go deeper into the personal spirituality-

