The pain of the loss of God

“I feel just that terrible pain of loss, of God not wanting me, of God not being God, of God not really existing.”
Mother Teresa in letters published in 2007.

“I am not unhappy about the fact that there might not be a God,” he says. “I don’t feel that my life has a big, gaping hole in it. In some ways I feel more human than I ever have. There is more reality in my existence than when I was full-on as a believer. It is a completely different world to the one I inhabited for 37 years, so there are feelings of unfamiliarity.”
Olympic Gold Medalist and former committed Christian Jonathan Edwards on his loss of faith.

We all struggle with our faith from time to time. I know I do. But is it because we want to feel something, feel sure about something? We're emotional beings, so feelings are important to us. But with God is more than emotions. He's bigger than our feelings.

But it's normal to question. If we stop questioning, we stop seeking and we move further and further away from God.

An interesting article from Boundless - Absent God - looks at this.