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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This is what people have to tell themselves to weather bad things, to believe there is some point to their suffering.  Personally, I don't buy it either.  When people say this to you, you are supposed to accept your infertility as part of some larger, greater scheme and be ok with it.  It is supposed to make you feel better, that this isn't random bad luck.  [b]Personally, I'd rather believe in random bad luck than that the one being who is supposed to love me and everyone else more than anything allowed/caused some of my bad stuff to happen, but that's just me.[/b]  I'm sorry things are difficult for you right now.[/quote]

Thanks, PP.  And the bolded is EXACTLY how I feel.  If God is love, I'm sure as shit not feeling loved right now.  My other favorite is "God doesn't give us more than we can handle."  I'm begging to differ at the moment.  [/quote]

Exactly that, and that's the reason I backed away from religion.  I haven't read through the whole thread.  OP, I wish you all the best.[/quote]

Thanks.  I'm not seeing anything here that speaks to me, to be honest.  I think the reality is is that I truly am an agnostic who really wanted to believe.  I just don't believe in the God of Christian faith right now.  So saying "turn to your faith" or "God has a plan" just rings very hollow to me these days.[/quote]

I assume this is OP?

I understand that you feel this way and think that most people go through phases like this in their faith journey. You are searching for something much deeper than gratuitous platitudes about God will provide.

But I go back to something that I posted earlier, in response to other glimpses you have given us into your life. You are still trying to "save yourself." You think that there is something that you, as a Type A person, can and should be able to do to figure this out, make it seem reasonable, and embrace on your terms. That is simply not the way that Christianity works. Jesus asked us to give everything up to follow Him, and that includes our dreams and plans for our own lives. That is when we will receive the blessing and gift of faith. [b]It sounds like you're not there yet, which is fine, but I think you need to recognize that[/b].[/quote]

No, I am not.  I am pissed beyond belief.  And I still fail to see what the hell eternal salvation has to do with my dreams and plans for my life here on earth.  Everything on this earth seems kinda pointless to me at the moment.  I firmly do not believe that God made me infertile b/c there is some bastard child out there somewhere waiting to be born who just couldn't make it on this earth without me as a mother.  It's a pretty twisted view, as I think about it, because it means some poor soul has to end up pregnant with a child they don't want.  It's pretty sick to wish that on someone, and I don't.  If an adoption happens for us, great.  But I'm not going to wish an unplanned pregnancy on someone just so I can be a mother again.  And I can't see how a benevolent and caring God would want that either.  I CAN see how an indifferent one (I.E. pure intelligence) couldn't care less and has nothing to do with it either way.

I think I just need to go be a Unitarian Universalist since they don't traffic in platitudes or absolutes or claim to know what is true.  I can respect that.[/quote]

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