- May 4, 2020
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Orthodox only please.
I have a friend who lives a long distance from me. He lost his fiancée this past year and is dealing with grief. He is also being forced to adapt to some new unfavorable life circumstances. He has a little trailer in the woods; he doesn't use it much because it is a dump and he couldn't work from there before. Now, he will spend at least the whole winter there.
He has always been an avowed atheist, but lately he says he has been praying to God, and doing so sincerely. He is praying to the wishy-washy non-specific "universal God" that modern people pray to, but nonetheless I feel he is genuinely looking for the true God.
On the one hand, I feel God at work in his spending a winter alone in the woods thinking about God and life and death. On the other hand, as a friend I worry about depression, what this might do to him.
I have sent him some Orthodox materials which didn't seem to help. So, if anyone has any suggestions I'd so much appreciate it. If not, please just pray for my friend (and his reposed fiancée)?
I have a friend who lives a long distance from me. He lost his fiancée this past year and is dealing with grief. He is also being forced to adapt to some new unfavorable life circumstances. He has a little trailer in the woods; he doesn't use it much because it is a dump and he couldn't work from there before. Now, he will spend at least the whole winter there.
He has always been an avowed atheist, but lately he says he has been praying to God, and doing so sincerely. He is praying to the wishy-washy non-specific "universal God" that modern people pray to, but nonetheless I feel he is genuinely looking for the true God.
On the one hand, I feel God at work in his spending a winter alone in the woods thinking about God and life and death. On the other hand, as a friend I worry about depression, what this might do to him.
I have sent him some Orthodox materials which didn't seem to help. So, if anyone has any suggestions I'd so much appreciate it. If not, please just pray for my friend (and his reposed fiancée)?
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