Now, I’m only guessing here, but I believe you have been in this kind of situation before. Not only does it all seem impossible, the pain seem unbearable, with nothing good on the horizon, but you could swear this was deja-vu, and you’d been here before, and not that long ago.

This is the crux of the human condition, we get into troubles all the time, and after the hundredth repetition, we’re still surprised and asking the same question - why me? The really interesting part of course is that - whatever our faith or lack thereof - we still expect an answer from someone outside of ourselves as we cry upward in anguish. That’s right of course, at the depth of our despair we cry out to God - our Maker, our Saviour, the Lord Almighty.