My younger brother Todd was diagnosed with ALS (Lou Gehrig's disease) a few years ago. Suffering is a great mystery which man has pondered for thousands of years yet still doesn't completely understand. We ask questions like, "Why do bad things happen to good people?"; "Why do good things happen to bad people?"; "Why do the good die young?"; "Why does God allow suffering?" In a talk my brother recently gave to his church, he too tries to make sense of suffering. You can listen to his inspirational talk by following this link:
http://www.evangelbaptist.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/13-10-20-head-and-heart-of-sufferring.mp3