“Dear God, I’m breaking up with You.”
Those words may never have been spoken out loud, but they captured the silent cry of a wounded heart. When life delivers a blow so devastating that faith feels like a betrayal, it can seem easier to walk away from God than to hold on.
Some moments shake the soul to its core, moments when trauma leaves more questions than answers. In that place of pain, God can feel distant, silent, or even absent. Prayers echo back unanswered, and what once felt like divine presence now feels like abandonment.
The journey through disillusionment often leads to what many call a “night of the soul.” Practices that once gave strength, prayer, scripture, and fellowship feel hollow. Faith itself seems fragile, fragile enough to break.
And yet, even in the darkest spaces, light can still find a way in. Sometimes it comes through the story of someone who has wrestled with pain, doubt, and silence, and yet discovered that despair does not have the final word. In those unexpected moments, a spark of hope begins to stir.
Slowly, a different understanding of faith emerges. Faith is no longer about having perfect answers or living without struggle. It becomes about learning to trust again, not because the pain disappears, but because strength and courage begin to grow within it.
What once looked like wasted suffering can, in time, give birth to purpose. Scars that symbolize abandonment can become reminders of survival, even tools of healing for others. Brokenness, instead of disqualifying, becomes the very soil where resilience and empathy are born.
Disillusionment, then, is not the end of the journey; it can be the doorway to a deeper and more authentic faith. Redemption does not erase the wounds; it transforms them into a testimony.
So, to the one who feels like giving up, who feels like writing their breakup letter to God: your story is not over. Darkness is not final. The chapter that feels like an ending may one day become the very chapter that saves someone else.
Come back not because all the answers will suddenly appear, but because the God you doubted has never stopped holding on to you. In His presence, even unanswered questions can rest. In His love, brokenness can heal. In His grace, a new story can begin.
Hold on. Hope is alive. Redemption is real. And God is closer than you think.
Written by Tetteh Carer Kai Mansah
TAC-GH Manhean District
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