Why God ... and this time it's serious!

Have you ever wondered why God allows certain things to happen?
I have.
Here's just some of the things I think about.

Why is it that someone who loves children can't have them and has a lot of trouble adopting, yet someone who is clearly a hazard to the health of a child spits them out like no body's business (and has no trouble at all adopting and being a part of the foster care system - go DCF!)???

Have you ever wondered why God takes the sweetest people you have ever known at such a young age and yet leaves the nastiest people here?

Why is it that parents who belong to MENSA have children with an IQ of 40?

How can God allow someone who has never had health issues, eats right, exercises goes to the doctors' regularly - now have cancer?

I recently finished the book Shattered Dreams by Larry Crabb. In it he discusses three important things about why God allows suffering.

1- God did not send Christ to make our lives easier and becoming a Christ follower does not give you a stamp of approval for a worry free, problem free, stress free, care free, disease free life.

2- When God seems to be MIA, he is actually doing some very important work in your life.

3- Getting good things in life is great, but when bad things happen it allows us an opportunity to get to know God for who he is.

Never give up on God, be mad, be upset, cry, scream, be honest, but don't give up.
He's there. He's right there. Don't think in humans terms of "feeling his presence" because God is not human. Don't give up.