![]() Here are several points worth considering. His book The Problem of Pain (1940) and A Grief Observed (1961) are helpful guides to working through suffering theologically and emotionally. Lewis is a good person to turn to, to both feel the hammer at your head and also find some instruction on how to unravel the difficulty of pain. How should we teach about suffering? C.S. There is nothing easy about pain and there’s nothing easy about its instruction, both before it begins and in the mix of its weight in our lives. ![]() ![]() That someone is often God, especially if we have eyes to see the brokenness in people’s lives. He says that there should be a someone with hammer at the head of every happy man, “reminding him with a knock that there are unhappy people, that however happy he may be, life will sooner or later show its claws”. I like to quote Anton Chekhov, the famous Russian short story writer and a Christian. The suffering of life doesn’t seem to pair with the goodness of God. ![]()
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