What Do You Do When You Ask God “Why?” and Don't Get an Answer? Why did God allow this? Why didn't He stop it? Why did He let this person die? Why did this relationship end? Why did I pray—and nothing changed? Suffering has a way of bringing us face-to-face with questions we may never have seriously considered when life was going well. I know what it's like to ask God “Why?” I've asked it in my own grief and loss. And one of the hardest parts of that question is realizing tha