“As a long time believer and as a lay counselor, I have seen myself and others go through seasons where God feels more like a severe taskmaster than the compassionate Father he actually is. We default to either meeting with him to appease him or avoiding him—either because we are afraid of failure or because he seems dissociated from our reality. I want to share with you 3 practices that God can use to comfort you with his safety in those seasons.” When God Feels Unsafe by Aylin Merck