Why Hast Thou Forsaken Me?

Once a month, we gather with some friends and discuss writings that teach Biblical principals and ideas or written by theologians.  This past week was the first chapter of "A Grief Observed" written by C.S. Lewis.  Here is an excerpt:

"... Meanwhile, where is God? This is one of the most disquieting symptoms. When you are happy, so happy that you have no sense of needing Him, so happy that you are tempted to feel His claims upon you as an interruption, if you remember yourself and turn to Him with gratitude and praise, you will be — or so it feels — welcomed with open arms. But go to Him when your need is desperate, when all other help is vain, and what do you find? A door slammed in your face, and a sound of bolting and double bolting on the inside. After that, silence. You may as well turn away. The longer you wait, the more emphatic the silence will become. There are no lights in the windows. It might be an empty house. Was it ever inhabited? It seemed so once. And that seeming was as strong as this. What can this mean? Why is He so present a commander in our time of prosperity and so very absent a help in time of trouble?
I tried to put some of these thoughts to C. this afternoon. He reminded me that the same thing seems to have happened to Christ: 'Why hast Thou forsaken Me?'"

C.S. Lewis was writing after the death of his wife, but somehow I feel it applies to the way I feel about our suffering with this condition.  Obviously the situations are different, but the feeling of loss, emptiness, and overwhelming loneliness are the same, if not nearly the same.

It seems ironic to say, that as a Christian I would ask "where is God" more, but as a Christian I know that there is a God and He seems distant.  Vulvodynia affects everyone on a physical and emotional level, is it fair to say that as a Christian it also affects us on a spiritual level?  Where is God?  Why has He forsaken me?

Deut 31:6  "Be strong and courageous. Do not be afraid or terrified because of them, for the LORD your God goes with you; He will never leave you nor forsake you.” 

Hebrews 13:5b  "because God has said,  'Never will I leave you; never will I forsake you.'" 

If God says He will never leave or forsake us, is the feeling of abandonment then wrong-placed?  Have we abandoned our focus on the Lord?  Are we looking where we want answers and avoiding the areas of our lives in which He is giving them?  Just a thought...