Dear Gigi:

You wrote: ” I have been trying to feel some sort of connection with my faith and I never can. I don’t understand how so many people feel this so deeply and I cannot and I am a highly sensitive empath. Which led me to my confusion.”

I can help you with this confusion. I will attempt to help you with it:

The fact that you have empathy is not congruent with having faith in a god that doesn’t.

There is this fact: god, if he existed as indicated by the bibles, is not empathetic to the intense, prolonged suffering of millions of people, millions and millions of children who are suffering. Some people will tell you that they feel god’s empathy for them. But the millions and millions I mentioned, don’t feel god’s empathy because he is not helping them out of abusive households, violence, unspeakable pain.

Some will tell you: but they are alive to tell about their childhood pain. Well, many are not alive: suicide, accidents, self destruction. And many who are alive, would prefer to not be alive if they had to go through the suffering again (I am one).

So, as an empath, you have a difficulty believing in one who is not an empath to be a good person or a good god…

anita