Stagione 1
Someone wrote about a rare, worsening condition with no hope of healing, and asked why God lets some people suffer while others sail through. That question gets argued at length. But four words at the end carry the real one: how can God leave me here. This episode doesn't answer why. It goes to Psalm 88 — Heman the Ezrahite, cut off, worn out, crying day and night with nothing coming back, telling God to his face that he has hidden it. The only psalm that never turns. God kept it in the book he gave his people to pray, and did not correct it. One difference between the post and the psalm: one is said about God, the other is said to him. That's the whole episode.
Someone posted online that other Christians make them grouchy — the snark, the superiority, the sense that the people who were meant to be safe aren't. Buried in the middle of it is a shorter line: we don't have each other as a safe space. This episode doesn't answer the question. It goes to Jeremiah, who wanted a shelter in the desert so he wouldn't have to be among his own people, and wept for them in the same breath. Then to Psalm 55, which says almost the same sentence as the post, pointed somewhere else. Jeremiah 9. Psalm 55.