Reply #25: If I'd been that wife, I'd have gotten pretty pissed off at that answer.

[knitter4democracy]

She already knew about that support network--she turned to them in her time of crisis to ask them to pray for her husband and therefore knew they loved her and supported her beforehand.

The reality is, her prayers went unanswered. Who knows why. Sometimes prayers are answered, sometimes they're answered in odd ways, and sometimes they just plain aren't answered. Being a person of faith, I take it on faith that there's a reason behind all of that, but I can definitely understand why someone else wouldn't and why that wife would be furious with that lame answer.