Everybody is going to suffer. We have no choice about that. But there is a choice we do have: to suffer alone or to suffer in the hands of a God who is all-powerful, and all-loving and whose hands are forever scarred by his own suffering. The “answer” to the problem of suffering is not a formula or an intellectual argument, but a relationship, a relationship with a God who is all- powerful, and all-loving, but who has suffered and does still suffer with his creatures.
