Thank you for posting @stellabelle.

A tragic, haunting story of emptiness and loss and yet in some form or another everyone must come to that moment in time where there is question.......What more is there to life than this....whatever that moment is for each and every one of us.

Mankind is too weak to make it on his own...he either accepts God's strength through His plan for man or he defaults to satan's plan for man. The struggle for your soul is real just as the struggle for your body was real.

God is not willing that any should perish....he provided the Salvation solution through His Son Jesus Christ. The rulership of Adam, the first man, was usurped by satan...thus the need for a Salvation plan which God provided.

Translated from the original Greek New Testament.
For you see...God loved the world so much that He gave His uniquely born Son that anyone who believes in Him shall not perish but have eternal life.

Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ and you will be saved.

Religion is man by man's effort to seek the approbation of God.
Christianity is God seeking a relationship with man through His Son Christ Jesus.

The question is.....
What do you think of Christ? Do you accept or reject Him? That is the question here in time that we all answer.

It is faith alone in Christ alone for salvation...deliverance.

Thank you for opportunity to think on these things. Your story was especially poignant as bleujay has a frame of reference and experience with this sphere of empty superficial life...not on this scale....but truly can empathise with the incredible shock of its stark and empty deliverance of the goods it promised.

satan cannot deliver on his promises but God can and does. The stability and contentment of the life God offers is real, satisfying.....you will never look elsewhere once you take God up on His offer.

Wishing you God's best for your life. Kind Regards, bleujay