This is what happens to us in the crucible of our lives. We are being refined until God can see God’s image in us. This is the great promise in our pain, the living hope in our darkness. WE ARE NEVER ALONE The third insight to be found in our suffering is this: We are never alone in the darkness. The eminent twentieth-century Jewish theologian Martin Buber maintained that the Hebrew text recording God’s self-revelation to Moses on Mount Sinai as “I AM WHO I AM” (Exod 3:14) can be translated more