The church does a lot of things well, but helping people find their way through unrelenting suffering is not typically one of them. To my mind, the reason for this bewildering lack of help for those who suffer stems from modern Western Christianity's inaccurate definitions for concepts like suffering, healing, hard circumstances and miracles. Too often we see suffering  as something to be silently endured, never showing other believers just how far our pain grinds down our d