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Why do people turn away from God?

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  Why Do People Turn Away from God? 1. The Question Why do people turn away from God? Not as a judgment. Not as a failure. But as a real, human experience — one that deserves compassion and reflection. 2. The Human Angle You see someone who used to pray, now silent. You hear someone say, “I tried — it didn’t work.” You feel your own heart grow distant, dry, uncertain. And you wonder: What happened? Where did the connection go? Was it ever real? 3. The Inquiry People turn away from God for many reasons — and most of them are tender. Suffering : Pain makes us question everything. If God is good, why this? Disillusionment : Institutions fail. Leaders disappoint. Faith feels like a lie. Unanswered questions : Doubts grow. Silence stretches. Certainty crumbles. Spiritual dryness : The practices stop working. The presence feels absent. Busyness : Life gets loud. God gets crowded out. Shame : We feel unworthy, so we hide. Autonomy : We want control. God feels intrusive. Conv...
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Publisher's Pride: Books on Bestseller Lists - Learning to Feel (Girrell)

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  Recently,  Learning to Feel  (Girrell), reached #214 on the Amazon bestseller list of psychologist biographies. Book Description:  Learning to Feel, Second Edition,  teaches readers how to gain choice and authority over their emotional states. Feelings and emotions are reactions to the deeply held beliefs and experiences of our lives. In order to become fully emotionally intelligent - that is, to be able to know what is yours, what comes from the others, and how best to respond to those others - we must connect first to those core experiences and often re-interpret the meaning they have held for us.  Learning to Feel  is such a journey, intended to be a set of trail blazes for anyone who wishes to up their game in the realm of emotional intelligence. (Edition 1 was selected for the Independent Press Distinguished Favorite Award and a Literary Titan gold award.) First Edition Book Awards Literary Titan Gold Award Independent Press Award Distinguished ...
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Transformation Tuesday: Choosing Truth over Self-Betrayal

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  There’s a particular kind of exhaustion that doesn’t come from overwork or lack of sleep. It comes from living out of sync with your own truth. From saying “it’s fine” when it isn’t. From pretending you don’t know what you know. From carrying a life that looks good on the outside but feels like sandpaper on the inside. Self‑betrayal is quiet. It rarely announces itself. It shows up as the smile you force, the boundary you don’t set, the intuition you override because it’s inconvenient. It shows up in the way you shrink your needs, soften your voice, or talk yourself out of what you feel. But truth has a way of waiting. It doesn’t disappear just because you ignore it. It sits there, patient and persistent, until you’re ready to stop abandoning yourself. Choosing truth over self‑betrayal is not about confrontation. It’s about alignment. It sounds like: “This matters to me.” “I’m not okay with that.” “I need something different.” “I can’t keep pretending this doesn’t hur...
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