Genesis 18:9-15Romans 8:31-39 and Luke 1:46-55

Whenever I come to bury someone who’s lived in deep pain or great poverty, I’m almost overwhelmed.

I told a minister one time, “Sometimes I wonder why people have to die the way they have to die,” and he looked at me with tears in his eyes and said, “Sometimes I wonder why they have to live the way they have to live.”

I have a friend who is a Christian clown. Everything she does is based on Scripture.

And one of her favorite Scriptures is the Scripture from Genesis that says Sarah laughed.

Why wouldn’t she have laughed? God promised her a child when she had grown old. How could even God do that?

We ask the same kinds of questions, don’t we? How could God allow ...? You can fill in the rest.

And we wonder how even God can turn our pain and our …