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(JD) · Apr 02, 2009, 06:34 PM

One of my long-term goals is to write what I've found on this.

I have believed for quite some time that the ability to have faith in God is somewhere in the brain nearby where events and memories are... since when trauma occurs and events and memory files are scattered onto the "floor" it appears that faith also becomes garbled.

Relying upon what was "known" prior to the trauma works. Some can have the mental capacity to remember how it was they felt when they knew they had faith. But something does change after trauma... it's a loss of the sense of closeness with God, the sense of "knowing" and having that faith.

So faith's definition changes. Now you have to fully rely upon God to be there, whether you can experience Him like before or not. He IS there, you know? Nothing can separate us...

Don't doubt in the dark what you knew to be true in the light.