strong enough to change her health condition. If this is a matter of my spiritual maturity, what can I do to help her get well?” Over the course of several meetings, she reflected on her childhood images of God as a distant judge and task master, ready to condemn her for the slightest doubt or misdeed. She also confessed her fear that she might be condemned to hell because of her questions about God’s nature and apparently inscrutable purposes for her daughter’s illness. Helen came to realize that