Questions from the heart
Honest questions about the hardest parts of a life, answered plainly, with a word from the ancient sources.
Illness and healing
Children
- How do I pray for a child who has lost their way?
- How do I pray to conceive without despairing in the waiting?
- How do I pray for a child who is being bullied?
- How do I let go of an adult child and entrust them to God?
- How do I pray for the health of a newborn?
- How do I bear a parent's illness or dementia, when they no longer know me?
- My child doesn't believe. Should I still pray for them?
Loneliness and loss
- How do I begin to pray after someone I love has died?
- How do I pray for a life partner without losing my dignity?
- How do I survive a divorce without becoming bitter?
- Am I allowed to be angry at God?
- How do I talk to God when I am completely alone?
- A year has passed and the grief hasn't lifted. What now?
- How do I pray when I feel invisible, as if no one really sees me?
Fear and anxiety
Work and money
Guilt and forgiveness
Self and meaning
- Who am I without my job, my status, other people's expectations?
- Why do I keep comparing myself to others and always lose?
- I've lost all sense of meaning. What now?
- Why do I depend so much on other people's approval?
- How do I stop feeling like an impostor who hasn't earned it?
- How do I stop putting my life off until 'later'?
- Why does faith in wonder fade with age, leaving only cynicism?
- Why is the world so unjust — the cruel prosper, the good suffer?
- Why do I sabotage my own happiness whenever things go well?
- Half my life is gone and I have little to show. Is it too late?
Your question
Ask what weighs on you. We read every one, and if you leave a way to reach you, we answer personally.