suffer with

Compatible: from the medieval Latin word "compati" - to suffer with.

We understandably question how there can be a good God in the presence of so much evil and suffering in the world. This is our dilemma.

Those who experience the depth of true love are immersed in a divine mystery - the paradox of suffering love. An experiential understanding of the revelation of the cross; understanding why the central Christian symbol is of a naked, bleeding, suffering divine-human being.

The happiest and most peaceful people know that their plight is God’s own. For them, Jesus is not observing human suffering from a distance, but is at the center of human suffering, with us and for us, as “all creation groans in one great act of giving birth” (Romans 8:22).

But our rational minds will never fully surrender to this mystery until our minds are led by our soul and our spirit.

Romans 8:22-23 "For we know that all creation has been groaning as in the pains of childbirth right up to the present time. And we believers also groan, even though we have the Holy Spirit within us as a foretaste of future glory, for we long for our bodies to be released from sin and suffering."