“What has been taken from you that you are still grieving?”

“Have you ever felt abandoned by God? What did you do with that feeling?”

“Do you actually believe this, or does it feel like a greeting card when you are in pain?”

“What pain in your past has equipped you to sit with someone else in theirs?”

“What is this trial producing in you that comfort never could?”

“When you are at your lowest, do you believe God moves closer or further away?”

“If Jesus cried at a funeral He was about to reverse, what does that tell you about grief?”

“What mercy are you overlooking because the pain is louder?”

“What suffering did you assume was a sign God was angry, when maybe it is just life in a broken world?”

“Jesus suffered not because He had to learn something, but because He loved you. How does that reframe your pain?”

“Sometimes prayer ends without an answer. Can you stay in the room with God even when He is silent?”

“What would faith look like if nothing about your situation improved?”

“What character is being formed in you that you would never have chosen on your own?”

“Until that day, how do you want to carry your suffering — with bitterness, or with something else?”