We feel some pretty huge questions on the podcast like this one from a woman named Abija

who's going through a lot.

Dear Pastor John, hello, so I've been dealing with much in my life which has been really

hard for the past three years.

Normally, I could face life's challenges with the assurance that God was in control and

that I could trust him, but beginning in 2018, I started to get really depressed about

the whole meaning of life and my own life purpose.

It was in the midst of my challenges that I lost someone I really loved and it broke

me like nothing ever has.

My entire view of God and life has been shattered.

I can't seem to get myself out of wondering why life is even a thing, life, at least my

life, often feels like it has no meaning.

Can you renew my vision for life?

Can you explain to me what is the meaning of life?

Abija, I hear three distinct and interrelated sorrows that have brought you to this place

of doubt about the meaning of your life.

I hear depression, I hear loss, I hear a kind of fixation in your mind.

You say, I can't seem to get myself out of wondering why life is even a thing.

In other words, the tape keeps playing over and over in your mind is life really significant

at all, or is it just a meaningless jumble coming from nowhere, going nowhere, nothing

in between but randomness?

So I take your question, you're plea very seriously.

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