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[quote=Anonymous]OP, I get where you’re coming from. My health counseled a stricter and longer lockdown than many others had. I continued my personal devotions and watched services on television that helped me maintain at least some feeling of community. Together, these also helped me maintain a sense of God’s presence in my life.

I’m now back to “live” worship in community. It is hard. I’m still “three years ago” in my mind and still taking precautions and wearing a mask. Everybody else seems to have moved on long ago. All my “jobs” have been taken over by others and nobody seems inclined to invite me to return to them. I feel much more a spectator and much less a participant than before covid. It is very hard.

I’m trying to remember that it takes time for a fire to reignite. I’m trying to be more outgoing than it would be my normal nature to be, to reconnect (or connect in the first place with new people). I want to get back to the after-service social, but I’m still wary of covid. I could ask for a “job” but I’m timid, partly because of the weakened sense of connection.

Most of all, I’m trying to be patient and do things in God’s time. The way to handle “spiritual desolation” is to just keep showing up and asking God for a better connection. Sometimes it is better for things to go slowly. When Muslims break the Ramadan fast they often start with soup so as to not shock their system with too-heavy food. The spiritual life can be the same.

I’d suggest you pick a place and keep showing up. Try to identify in. Try to get to know people. Try to get involved. Pray on your own. Ask God for Faith, which is a gift. Give it a reasonable time, say six months. If it isn’t working then you can try somewhere else while remaining connected to the first place at least until you’re well-established in the second. [/quote]

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