Replies

"I dare you to tell the three of them it's because they thought life was painful, that their daughter's brain is in peril."

You're right of course.

I suppose I'm reffering more to how the suffering is taken,how it is seen,how it is accepted and how it's dealt with..."more or less, something like that" 8-)

I had an awesomely brilliant, warmly pastoral, Scripturally sound, AND theologically conclusive answer to your earlier post last night, but then I couldn't log on to FR again. The world loses another chance for universal peace. So it goes.

But, of course, I remained serene, with my accustomed equanimididdy for which I am so justly famous.

Yeah. It's a matter of parsing, which used to be a good thing until BJ Clintoon. All the sorrow and grief I saw, not only from patients and their parents but from an admirable, very dedicated, and loving hospital staff (pediatric people never seem to forget that people need love to get well) is suffering. I would say all were tempted to despair. Some were delivered and protected from succumbing to that temptation by grace operating through their trust in the Lord who swapped a Son for a slave and who turns evil into good. Others, not so much.