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What Good Is Suffering?
 Suffering is all around. Every day the news brings stories of kidnappings, sexual abuse, and murder. It seems as though the world is falling apart as calamities, both natural and man-made, afflict the people of the earth.
From an historical viewpoint, we know that since the fall of man in the Garden of Eden these types of things have been happening with regularity. I believe the connected nature of our world and the plethora of communications avenues we have, especially here in the United States, lead us to believe that these disasters of creation and depravity are increasing in frequency. However, suffering and our exposure to the suffering of others have spiritual lessons for us if we step back just far enough to see what it all means.
In this issue, we deal with suffering as it is inflicted on CPC/PCC clients and their babies. God can bring healing to the one who is suffering, and He can use suffering to set in motion a course of grace in the one who has experienced the effects of sin. I hope this issue will help you put suffering in perspective and give you a renewed vision for the ministry opportunities that can arise in its wake.
Jerry Thacker, Publisher
jerry@rightideas.us
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