an opportunity to straightforwardly address issues of faith with them. C. S. Lewis said it well when he wrote, “Pain is God’s megaphone to a deaf world.” In our work, we’ve found that persons who become angry at God or turn away from spiritual matters when bad things happen often did not have a truly meaningful relationship with God prior to these events. Seen positively, such traumatic, stressful events may be the catalyst leading to a new or renewed faith relationship for an elderly person. Those