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Your prayers feel hollow, like they're being sent to an empty room.
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You feel a constant, low-level spiritual dryness, as if you're wandering a desert.
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Reading the Bible has started to feel more like a chore than a comfort.
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You see others with an unshakeable faith and secretly feel a pang of envy, wondering why you can’t feel the same.
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You’re trying to reconcile the suffering in your life, or the world, with the idea of a loving God who is always present.
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The Holy Land feels like a distant dream, a place you'll likely never get to see or touch for yourself.
This feeling has a name: The Great Spiritual Divide. It’s the gap between the faith you *want* to feel in your heart and the spiritual emptiness you actually experience. It’s the profound sense of disconnection from the very source of peace you seek. The root cause isn't a lack of faith; it's a lack of a tangible connection in a world filled with abstract worries and digital noise.