Most of us will have faced that most delicate situation of meeting a person who is suffering.
We tend to go down one of two different avenues.
One is to offer well-intentioned advice - often in the form of well-worn cliches that the person will have heard several times before.
The other is not to say anything at all - risking the danger of leaving the person under the impression that God has no idea what is going on and is unable to help.
How are we to understand suffering and its p.