Suffering: The Question of "WHY?"
Suffering: The Question of “WHY?” I’ve been working on a series of lessons regarding suffering. At times I get lost in it thinking about the suffering that I have endured as well as close family and friends who have suffered. I can hardly shake my grief. Then I read about, hear about, the tragedy in Texas where close to 110 have died and many more are missing due to the flooding of the Guadalupe River that took their lives. Here again, I struggle with suffering and I don’t know one of those folks, never met one of the children. I have never suffered like that. But it hasn’t stopped me from asking about undeserved suffering that we have faced, with the simple question “why.” So this morning, when Bec and I were praying, God brought to my mind one line from an article and then guided my prayer. It was this: “……the bodies of two sisters from Dallas, ages thirteen and eleven, were found fifteen miles from where their cabin (Q: at Camp Mystic) was swept into the...