What If God Didn't Do What We Prayed For?

In this episode of Fragments of Faith, Whitney and Thomas talk about prayer the way most people actually experience it, especially when grief is involved. Whitney shares what it was like to keep praying through illness and loss, and what it does to you when you feel like God stayed silent. Thomas brings the pastoral side of the conversation, not to explain it away, but to name what often gets skipped: the effort of praying matters, and so does the disappointment when things do not change.

Together, they sit with the hard parts, the anger, the questions, and the weight of hoping again after you have been crushed before. They also push back on easy phrases like “God’s will” when those words are used too quickly, and they make space for the kind of honest faith that shows up even when you are not sure what you believe anymore.