Your post really spoke to me...not feeling the presence of God.

My husband passed away in 2008, after a lengthy illness.  The last six months were particularly hard.  I don't think that I was ever in my Bible as much as I was during that time.  If I was not taking care of him or passed out from exhaustion, I was in my Bible.  I remember telling my Christian friends that I did not feel the presence of God.  Oh, they got so anxious when I said that...but they needed to hear the rest of my thought...No, I did not feel the presence of God, but I KNEW He was with me.  He told me so, in His Word.  Honestly, I trusted in that.  My thoughts went more to those who did not know God.  How ever did they cope?   I grieved for the lost as never before during that time.  They did not know that He was there, but I knew God was there, even though I couldn't feel Him!  It wasn't a complaint, just a statement of fact.

I also perceive that your post is simply a statement of fact, not a complaint.

Anyway, I want to remind you of something that, probably, we both have heard more than once...during the test, the teacher doesn't speak.

I am positive that God has great blessings in store for you and your husband.  I continue to pray for you!

Lynn