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If tragedy or a sudden change of circumstances, either yours or the circumstances of somebody

you love has caused you to doubt God, has caused you to be angry at God, has caused you to wonder if

maybe God is angry at you, caused you to lose your faith, caused you to walk away from faith,

it strangers it might be to hear this from me. I actually understand that and I don't blame you.

And if I were you, maybe it would be me too. And that's what we're talking about today and that's

what we're going to talk about for the next couple of weeks in this series that I've entitled

under the circumstances, holding on to God when it appears that God is no longer holding on

to you. We've all been there and if you haven't been there yet, you're probably going to be there

eventually. Regardless of what you believe about God, regardless of your faith system, regardless

of your religion, it's so strange when bad things happen and circumstances go the wrong way,

there's something intuitively or I should say instinctively, I think in human beings,

for whatever reason we look up like what's going on, we just, it's like if there's anybody out there

to make concern, what in the world is going on, that's what we're going to talk about.

Because that's in you, that's in me, that's in all of us. And to start at the lowest of the low

rungs on the ladder, I want to begin with a statement that might perhaps be the most

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