Suffering: The Heart of the Matter

by Paul Buller

That morning she left for work a little tired. At lunch I got a call that she was in the ER; she had suffered a cardiac arrest. That evening she was in a medically induced coma, and the doctors were completely unwilling to speculate on the outcome. What happened? Why did it happen? Will my children grow up without a mom? Doesn't God care? Why doesn't God just fix this, right now? These questions and more flooded my mind and the minds of those who gathered to support us. Do we ask these questions rhetorically, or are we prepared to consider that there may be answers? Are we open to the possibility that God has good reasons for allowing our broken world - a world filled with suffering and hardship - to continue without "fixing" it? Is it possible that a world without suffering might actually be much worse than this world? In this book I explore these questions and I consider the possibility that maybe God actually knows what he is doing by allowing this broken world to continue. Maybe God knew what he was doing when he allowed my wife to experience a cardiac arrest. Maybe he has a bigger perspective than we do, a perspective that gets lost in the midst of tragedy.

190 pages, Paperback

Published May 17, 2016