"The Existence of God and Pain" by Michael Ramsden

In his commentary "The Existence of God and Pain" Michael Ramsden makes the following excellent comment: "Maybe we struggle with suffering so much in the West because we are so comfortable most of the time that we feel we don't need God. We do not rely on Him on a daily basis, and so we do not really know Him. When suffering comes along, therefore, it is not so much that it takes us away from God, but that it reveals to us that we have not really been close to God in the first place."