Suffering provides the gym equipment on which my faith can be exercised.

The Psalms wrap nouns and verbs around our pain better than any other book.

God points to the peaceful attitude of suffering people to teach others about Himself.

Heartache forces us to embrace God out of desparate, urgent need. God is never closer than when your heart is aching.

It always helps to know that other parents with special-needs children are surviving, and surviving well.

My life goal is to see the world's one billion people with disabilities embraced and encouraged by the church.

We're not the paragons of virtue that we'd all like to think we are. And so, to shatter that myth, God will use suffering to expose the stuff of which we're made.