When it comes to suffering, Christians' standard move has always been directing people to the Book of Job. No, the pain you are going through is not a form of punishment. But God didn't explain to Job, and probably will not explain to you either. In the

I suppose I had read the Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe when I was very young. Today I recall nothing from that book prior to rereading it, but the name "C. S. Lewis" stuck with me. It seems to have no way of running away from C.