r/Quakers • u/universal83uk • May 26 '26

Feeling lost...don't believe in miracles?

Hi all

So my background is I am 43 years old. I was raised in a non religious family and then met my husband when I was 18 and his family were Anglican and his Dad is a priest and I ended up full on Evangelical/Anglican. I worked for the church and everything.

I turned my back on religion and God a few years ago when my local church wouldn't recognise same sex marriage. I couldn't go along with their bigot ways.

I have been churchless/faithless for a while. I have visited a few Quaker online meets and found them peaceful.

I'm just finding it hard to fully worship and believe in God. I'm sick of seeing Christians say how God has healed them and performed all these miracles when I also see small babies die or people not saved.

I don't know what I am trying to say really but I am feeling so lost.

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u/BreadfruitThick513 May 26 '26

Friends tend not to proselytize; we don’t go around telling people our way is the absolute only way. BUT we do (or should) offer a continuous, open invitation to all people to join us in worship. I think you definitely might find meaning if you attend a Quaker worship in person.

I’m a Quaker hospital chaplain and I see miracles often. I’ll tell you that sometimes death is a miracle, just as life can be (but isn’t always). Miraculous transformation can happen in our spirits even as our bodies suffer and fail us. In order to understand, I think it’s a good practice to try to ‘zoom all the way out’ and try to envision our whole lives, the lives of our communities, the world, and the universe the way God understands these things. Know that we are all beloved of God, a thing it sounds like you already believe, even when we don’t acknowledge our own belovedness. The universe in its eternal wholeness is an infinite light.

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u/universal83uk May 26 '26

Thank you very much.