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When I go through trials and tribulations, I try to think of someone I know who is going through worse things, and I consider how they deal with it. For me I don't have to look too far, because my wife is a paraplegic confined to a wheelchair. She has been in one since 9:10 pm Mountain time October 26, 1987. See, I know because we were in the same car that went off a 35 foot embankment. The driver died, a girl lost the use of her arm, and my wife ended up in a wheelchair.

And while we do it, man cannot charge an omniscient (all-knowing) and omnipotent (all powerful) Being with violating His own moral standards or that of anyone else without presuming these unique attributes of deity our self

For instance, while it would be wrong to take innocent life since you would be taking something sacred that you did not give, and you may be robbing others of benefits, joy, etc., yet as the giver of life, who “loans” children to man, then God has a right to use His power to take -for His own purposes - what He gave and make that loss to work out for good.

For since God alone knows what all the effects will be of even the flap of the wing of a butterfly, then He alone know what all the effects will be of taking that life, or all the effects other sufferings in this life, and can make it all work out for Good, esp. in the light of eternity.

Meaning that all the innocent lives that the Giver of life took are and will be thankful that God did and eternity will show the wisdom, benevolence, mercy, grace and justice of God, that He knew exactly what He was doing, despite our protests - as finite souls - when they are negative.

We simply do not see the Big Picture, the intricate tapestry that only an omniscient and omnipotent Being does. Thus while we may judge events as evil now - in this sliver of time in our ignorance of what such will effect, the God of the Bible promises, and has much illustrated, that He makes all things work out for the Good of those who love Him, and this love the good. ( Romans 8:28) Glory to God.

My life is but a weaving ― Corrie ten Boom ―

My life is but a weaving
Between my God and me;
I cannot choose the colors
He worketh steadily.
Sometimes He weaveth sorrow
And I in foolish pride
Forget He sees the upper,
And I the under side.
Not till the loom is silent
And the shuttles cease to fly,
Shall God unroll the canvas
And explain the reason why.
The dark threads are as needful
In the Weaver’s skillful hand,
As the threads of gold and silver
In the pattern He has planned.
My life is but a weaving
Between my God and me;
I see the seams, the tangles,
But He sees perfectly.
He knows, He loves, He cares,
Nothing this truth can dim;
He gives His very best to those
Who chose to walk with Him.