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Father Never Leaves Me

Finding God in the Silence of Sorrow

 

After loss, after trauma, after prayers that seem to go unanswered — one of the hardest things to endure is God’s silence.

 

When I lost my brother and then my mother only months apart, I cried out day and night. I begged for comfort, for answers, for something that would make the pain bearable. What I heard in return felt like… nothing.

 

The silence was deafening. And in that silence, I began to wonder: Had God left me too?

 

When Silence Feels Like Absence

 

Grief is heavy enough without the feeling that your prayers are bouncing off the ceiling. I remember nights of sobbing into my pillow, desperate for a word from God, a dream, a sign — anything.

 

Instead, all I felt was stillness.

 

At first, I confused His silence with abandonment. I thought maybe I had done something wrong, or perhaps He was too far away to hear me.

 

The Lesson Hidden in the Quiet

 

It took time, but slowly I realized that silence doesn’t mean absence. In fact, silence can sometimes mean presence.

 

  • Just as a friend can sit beside you without speaking, God was sitting with me in my sorrow.
  • Just as a parent holds a child through the night, He was holding me, even when I couldn’t hear His voice.
  • Just as Jesus wept with Mary and Martha at the tomb of Lazarus, I believe He wept with me too.

 

God’s silence wasn’t rejection — it was a deeper kind of comfort. One that didn’t need words to be real.

 

How to Trust God in the Quiet

 

If you are in a season where God seems silent, here are truths I learned in my journey:

 

  • Silence is not abandonment. God promised He would never leave us (Hebrews 13:5).
  • Stillness can be sacred. Sometimes God asks us to simply “Be still, and know that I am God” (Psalm 46:10).
  • Healing takes time. His comfort may not come in the way we expect, but He is always near to the brokenhearted (Psalm 34:18).

 

Encouragement for You

 

If you feel like God is silent in your pain, I want to remind you: silence is not the same as absence. He is closer than you think. He is sitting with you, holding you, and carrying you through.

 

The silence will not last forever, but His love will.

 

Final Word

 

The silence of sorrow was one of the hardest valleys I’ve ever walked through. But it also became one of the clearest revelations of God’s faithful presence.

 

That’s why I wrote Father Never Leaves Me — to remind you that even when you cannot hear Him, even when you cannot see Him, He is still there.

 

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