I’m responding to the second formulation of your question (“does your religion help you cope with certain things in life?”), because the wording used in the question title is a poor fit for my religion. I’m a Zen Buddhist, and neither faith nor belief really figure into it.
Neither do consolation and comfort, for that matter. The message seems pretty bleak: Nothing lasts. Nothing has its own independent existence. There’s nothing but change, with everything being swept along together in the churning flow. This doesn’t constitute a belief so much as a basic observation.
This is discomfiting mostly because we are in varying degrees of denial about impermanence. We don’t give full consideration to the implications of this basic fact and live accordingly. So change is constantly catching us by surprise and leaving us disappointed, bereft, distressed.
Zen practice is about facing impermanence squarely, not trying to negotiate with the universe for special exemptions, and coming to not only accept it, but to see its necessity, even its beauty.