Our inability to understand does not mean that there is no valid purpose for pain, suffering, and death. In her book, When God Weeps,10 Joni Eareckson Tada writes of a friend named Karla Larson. Karla is a young woman who is stricken with multiple medical disabilities. Her severe diabetes sits at the root of most of Karla’s problems. She has had both legs amputated, a kidney transplant, suffered a damaging heart attack, is legally blind, suffers from painful edema, and struggles with collapsed veins.