YOU ARE NOT ALONE
What Are You Going Through?
You don't have to have your life together to be here. Whatever brought you to this page — there is something in scripture for exactly where you are.
"Come unto me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest."
— Matthew 11:28
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You don't have to explain yourself to be here
We don't know exactly what brought you to this page. Maybe you typed something into a search bar at 2am that you'd be embarrassed for anyone to see. Maybe someone handed you a link and you weren't sure you'd click it. Maybe you've been circling the edges of faith for years and something finally cracked open.
You don't have to explain. You don't have to be at any particular place in your journey. You don't have to have made any decisions yet about what you believe. You just have to be here — which you are.
What you'll find on the pages below is not a list of things you need to do. It's not a performance standard or a checklist for getting right with God. It is scripture — from the Bible and the Book of Mormon — that has something actual to say to people in real pain. People who are struggling with addiction. People who have lost someone they love. People who feel like they are never enough. People who cannot feel God and are starting to wonder if He's there at all.
These texts were not written for people who have it together. They were written for the rest of us.
Find what speaks to where you are right now
Pick the one that's closest. You don't have to fit neatly into any category — most of us are dealing with more than one thing at once. Start anywhere.
"I feel like I'm never enough"
The voice that says you should be further along, more faithful, more disciplined. That voice is not God's voice. Here's what He actually says.
Read this first →"I'm struggling with addiction"
Addiction is not a moral failure that disqualifies you from God's love. Whatever you're dealing with — the gospel message is the same: come as you are.
Read →"I've lost someone"
Grief does not have a timeline and God does not require you to perform recovery. Scripture stays with you in the dark — not to rush you out of it, but to sit with you in it.
Read →"My marriage is struggling"
Whether you're in conflict, distance, betrayal, or just exhaustion — the scriptures speak to covenant love under pressure. Including what to do when it feels impossible.
Read →"I can't feel God anymore"
Spiritual dryness is not the same as spiritual abandonment. Some of the most faithful people in scripture went through seasons of absolute silence. You are not failing.
Read →"Someone I love has left the faith"
When a child, a spouse, or a close friend walks away from belief — it is one of the most painful things a person of faith can experience. What scripture says about loving people through it.
Read →"I'm facing a health crisis"
A diagnosis, a prognosis, a body that has stopped cooperating. The gospel does not promise easy answers. But it does promise a God who entered human suffering Himself.
Read →"I feel completely alone"
Not just lonely — the bone-deep sense that no one knows who you actually are, and if they did, they might not stay. Scripture for the places no one else can reach.
Read →"I want to start over"
Whether it's your faith, your life, or your relationship with God — fresh starts are not just permitted in the gospel. They are the whole point. The invitation is always open.
Read →What the gospel actually asks of you
The gospel doesn't ask you to be perfect. It asks you to come. Come as you are. Christ meets you where you are — not where you think you should be, not where someone told you the bar is. Where you actually are, right now, reading this.
Here is what it does not ask: perfection. It does not ask you to have your sin completely under control before you approach God. It does not ask you to feel the right things or have the right beliefs locked in before you are welcome. It does not ask you to run faster than you have strength.
"Come unto me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you, and learn of me; for I am meek and lowly in heart: and ye shall find rest unto your souls. For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light."
Read the invitation carefully: "Come unto me." Not "come unto me after." Not "come unto me when." Come. The condition is the coming, not the state you're in when you arrive. He does not say "Come unto me, all ye who have conquered your struggles." He says "come unto me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden." The labour and the heaviness are the qualification, not the disqualifier.
"And see that all these things are done in wisdom and order; for it is not requisite that a man should run faster than he has strength. And again, it is expedient that he should be diligent, that thereby he might win the prize; therefore, all things must be done in order."
You are not required to do everything at once. You are not behind. God designed this life as a journey, not a test you either pass or fail on day one. The word is diligent — consistent movement in the right direction — not instantaneous perfection. One day. One step. One turning toward God. That counts.
"And if men come unto me I will show unto them their weakness. I give unto men weakness that they might be humble; and my grace is sufficient for all men that humble themselves before me; for if they humble themselves before me, and have faith in me, then will I make weak things become strong unto them."
This is one of the most misunderstood verses in scripture. God does not give us weakness as punishment. He gives it to us so that we will need Him — so that we will be humble enough to actually receive His grace instead of relying entirely on our own strength. Your weakness is not a sign that you've failed. It is the design. It is what leads you to the only One who can actually help.
"Yea, come unto Christ, and be perfected in him, and deny yourselves of all ungodliness; and if ye shall deny yourselves of all ungodliness, and love God with all your might, mind and strength, then is his grace sufficient for you, that by his grace ye may be perfect in Christ."
Read the sequence: "Come unto Christ, and be perfected in him." Not before. Not as a prerequisite. In — in the very process of coming, in the relationship, in the journey. The perfecting happens inside the coming. You do not clean yourself up and then arrive. You arrive, and He does the work of making you whole.
The gospel's ask is not perfection before coming. It is progress after coming. It is turning toward God — not arriving already cleaned up, but turning. "Repentance" comes from the Greek metanoia: a change of direction, a turning of the heart. Not "achieve sinlessness." Turn. He meets you in the turning.
When you're ready, explore what it looks like to walk His path: the discipleship journey — learning to love God, love your neighbor, and become more like Him.
Religion has sometimes made this harder
It is worth saying plainly: religious communities have sometimes communicated the opposite of what the gospel actually teaches. People have been made to feel that they are not welcome until they meet a certain standard. They have been told — explicitly or implicitly — that their struggles disqualify them, that their sins are too severe, that God's patience for them has limits.
That is not the gospel. That is human institution grafted onto divine invitation, and it has done real damage to real people.
Jesus ate with tax collectors — the people his culture considered corrupt beyond redemption. He touched lepers — people his culture had declared unclean and untouchable. He chose Peter, who would deny Him three times on the worst night of His life, to be the foundation of His church. He chose Paul, who was actively persecuting and murdering Christians before his conversion, to write more of the New Testament than anyone else. He did not choose the polished. He chose the willing.
If you have been told you are too broken, too far gone, too sinful for God's love — whoever told you that was wrong. The testimony of the scriptures is exactly the opposite: the broken are precisely whom God came for.
"The LORD is nigh unto them that are of a broken heart; and saveth such as be of a contrite spirit."
"A bruised reed shall he not break, and the smoking flax shall he not quench."
"Neither death, nor life... nor things present, nor things to come... shall be able to separate us from the love of God."
"He inviteth them all to come unto him and partake of his goodness; and he denieth none that come unto him."
You don't need a plan. You just need a direction.
If you're not sure where to begin — or if the situation cards above all felt like they could apply — here are three things you can do right now that don't require you to have any of this figured out.
Questions people bring to this page
Does God still love me even if I keep sinning?
Yes. Romans 8:38-39 says nothing — not death, not life, not things present, not things to come — can separate you from the love of God. That is not conditional. It is not "nothing can separate you unless you sin enough times." It is a flat declaration. God's love is not a reward for good behavior. It is the ground beneath your feet whether you feel it or not. The fact that you keep sinning means you need grace — and the entire point of the gospel is that grace is available to you. Every day. Including today.
What does the Bible say when you feel broken?
Psalm 34:18 says "The LORD is nigh unto them that are of a broken heart; and saveth such as be of a contrite spirit." Not "the Lord will come to you once you've healed" — He is nigh right now. Isaiah 42:3 says He will not break a bruised reed or quench a dimly burning flame. The broken places are not where God is absent. They are, biblically, where He is most present.
What does God actually require of me?
Matthew 11:28 gives the clearest summary: "Come unto me." The requirement is the coming. Not arriving already healed. Not meeting a performance standard first. Come — in whatever condition you are in right now. Mosiah 4:27 adds that it is not required that you run faster than you have strength. Progress matters. Perfection is not the standard. The invitation is always open, and it is always directed at you exactly as you are today.
What if I can't feel God anymore?
Spiritual dryness is not the same as spiritual abandonment. Psalm 88 is the only psalm in the Bible that ends with no resolution — just darkness. It is included in scripture because God does not require you to pretend to feel what you don't feel. John of the Cross called it "the dark night of the soul." It is a documented part of the spiritual life for people of deep faith. The absence of feeling is not evidence of God's absence. It is an invitation to keep reaching — and sometimes, to get help from other people who can carry you when you cannot carry yourself.
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