Where is God When it Hurts? - Beyond Suffering (Paperback, 3rd Revised edition)

Pain and suffering are all too common in our world, both on a wider scale with war and famine, for example, and on a very personal level. How can a loving God allow such suffering? To ask such a question is "honest, reasonable even" (Joni Eareckson Tada), and yet a valid answer is frequently not given. As Yancey himself says: "many suffering people want to love God, but cannot see past their tears. They feel hurt and betrayed. Sadly, the Church often responds with more confusion than comfort." Yancey's achievement is a compassionate treatment of one of life's deepest mysteries, approaching the problem, not via the philosophical or theoretical route, but realising that the very nature of suffering is one of relationship: relationships between people, and our relationship with God. He attempts to lead the reader to an understanding of exactly where God is when it hurts. Pain and suffering are all too common in our world, both on a wider scale with war and famine, for example, and on a very personal level. How can a loving God allow such suffering?