Dear Sufferer

It was Easter weekend. Twenty-two-year-old Noah went intofull cardiac arrest just minutes after a hospital discharge. Hisparents administered CPR for eight long minutes before hewas declared dead on arrival by the paramedics. His familygathered around his bedside to say their goodbyes when heunexpectedly woke up to greet them with a smile.With more than two decades of navigating numerous medicalemergencies and hospitalizations Noah was in kidney failureagain in need of a third transplant. After caregiving for herextremely medically fragile son for twenty-two years authorL.M. Stokes tells how she learned to embrace the harmony ofsuffering and the Christian faith.Does suffering have a part to play in an active vibrant faith inChrist? Where is God when we suffer? Is there meaning andpurpose in suffering? How can we learn to suffer well? Is thegospel of Jesus Christ sufficient to satisfy and confront the questionsof suffering humanity?In Dear Sufferer L.M. Stokes shares her lessons in the schoolof suffering in a series of masterfully woven letters to DearSufferers everywhere.