Article November 20, 2013

Out of the fog of doubt

Carol Cummings

I had given up my faith in God.

My 46-year-old father's death, leaving my mother and siblings to fend for themselves, convinced me that if there was a God, He was unfair and heartless. I thought there was more integrity in calling myself an atheist than in paying lip service to a God I could neither love nor trust.

I was a US Air Force wife and the mother of two small children newly stationed in England. The foggy country roads I had to deal with paralleled where I was on my spiritual journey.

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Carol Cummings lives in Polson, Montana.

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