• Pain is not good. Romans 8:28, 35, 37 powerfully states, “And we know that God causes all things to work together for good to those who love God, to those who are called according to His purpose … Who will separate us from the love of Christ? Will tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?… But in all these things we overwhelmingly conquer through Him who loved us.” These are powerful truths to cling to when the bottom seems to have fallen out. Nothing,