We Thank God for What We Have but Do You Tell Him Your Complaints?

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In life I have learned that all Christians thank God for all their blessing, they pray to God for guidence, they ask God to heal the sick, they ask God to help others find their way, Christians ask God for many different things, and thank him for all he has done, but do you as a Christian talk to God about your frustrations, or when you feel like he has failed you, or when you are angry with him for some reason, or why you feel disappointed? I watched a show that had an actor play a preacher and he had a memeber of his church come to him because her son had lost his way and was not coming to church because he was not sure if he believed in God any more because no matter how much he prayed for a certain thing he was not answered and did not get what he prayed for. While there talking to this preacher he got her talk about if she had ever doubted God and at first she did what many others did and said NO, but then she admitted that she was very angry with at one time during her divorce, and felt like God had abandoned her, and the preacher asked her, "We all tell God what we want, we all tell God how great he is and thank him, but we seem to not tell him when he makes us angry or mad at him, or when he disappoints us or makes us feel left alone. These should be told to God he is a Big Boy and can take us being mad at him, being disappointed in him, and at times feeling hate. He understands these things and he wants us at these times to express them to him like we do others or to ourselves." I liked that saying and it has stuck with me for years. It make total since if we can tell him the God things, thank him, and ask him for things, then we should also tell him everything else because he is a Big Boy and he does understand and he does forgive. When my father died I did hate God for allowing my father to die. I am a christian and I do understand death and that God has a reason and purpose for us all and when our time comes it is for a reason, but I am a Daddy's Girl BIG TIME, and when he was taken from me I was do angry with God that I had hate feelings torward him. This went on for 2 yrs and then I saw that show and it was like God was talking to me. I went to a quite place in my home and talked to God about my anger and hate towards him, and afterwards I felt peacful and complete, and all that anger and hate just washed away from me and I knew then God understood, and had forgiven me. So when you talk to God do you tell him when you are mad or angry at him?