Pain isn't just a physical sensation—it also carries emotional weight. That distress, anguish, and anxiety can turn a ...

Have you ever felt crushed not by what happened, but by what you thought should happen? Your friend didn’t text back. Your ...

Why we do it (and how it made sense once) There’s a reason our minds default to worst-case scenarios. Evolutionarily, it made sense. Our ancestors survived by imagining what could go wrong.

We see this in Christ, our suffering Savior. Everything He accomplished for us, the rebellious, was through suffering, "being obedient to the point of death, even death on a cross." (Rom 5:19) .

FROM TOI PRINT EDITION Why we suffer, fall in love, and feel joyful October 17, 2024, 7:58 AM IST Speaking Tree in TOI Edit Page, Edit Page, TOI Facebook Linkedin Email ...

We certainly do not want to make the sweeping (and wrong) accusations as Job’s friends did, assuming his trials were retribution for a sinful life. Sometimes, godly people suffer for God’s ...

First, may we rejoice in it (1 Thess 5:16) – God is at work for our good and His glory. Also, let us restrain our hearts from debilitating anxiety and fretting – God is upon His throne (Ps 11:4).

But we can do better in addressing the challenges around us, and this series is an attempt to show how. Social isolation is the rare malady whose cure is fully known and costs relatively little ...

We may say that someone suffering in such a way is “unlucky” but luck has nothing to do with it; we are simply being exposed to adverse creative possibilities.

We can all recognize suffering when we see it; we’ve all been there. The bigger question is: Why do we suffer?

This is a difficult thing to do — not wanting. Most of all we want to have our “identity.” We separate ourselves from everything and then suffer the consequences of that aloneness.

As we grapple with the problem of animal suffering, it is worth considering a second approach that does not require seeing God as limited in this “only-way” fashion.