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spaceHolly Says,
"@Mibs -- I don't know how I feel about everything that everyone else has said here, so I'll say my two cents and leave what they said alone.

A typical answer is for your girlfriend to read Job. It's an eye opener. He experienced something similar to her -- he had to endure seeing terrible things happen to the people he loved and everything he had was taken from him. God answers his complaints about this. If she hasn't done so yet, she needs to prayerfully read that book.

Now on to the not so typical answer. Your friend needs to understand that bad things do happen. By no means is she to blame God for the things that she has witnessed recently, or the bad things that has happened to her. What does the Bible tell us about God? It says, in James 1:17, "Every good and perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of the heavenly lights, who does not change like shifting shadows."
God does not change. He's forever the same. He didn't just think out of no where "I'm going to do these bad things to people." It says that every good and perfect gift is from God. Satan and his demons are the ones who go about these bad things. What does Jesus himself say about God? He says in Matthew and some other Gospels, "Why do you call me good? Only the Father is good." Now God does allow Satan and his demons to do things, but that is not GOD doing them. He has to allow them to do their own will, because, just as James said, he does not change like shifting shadows. He gave everyone that he created free will. That includes the angels, which Satan and his demons were once part of. Every living thing has free will, to choose what God wants or what they want.

So really the question ends up being, is your girlfriend going to let Satan get to her? Or in these bad times, will she turn her eyes to heaven? that's where her help comes from. God is the one who can save her from her fears and take the things that have happened and use them for His glory. For example, now she can talk to others who have experienced similar things in a way that we can never talk to them. We have no experienced it and then had God recover us in Him. She can reach out to those people and help them understand God better.

Anyways, I know that was long, but I hope it helps.

~holly"
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