"This world is the place where we are constantly being called upon to exercise faith, 

to trust in God's promise against the evidence of our senses.  

Suffering is the path of discipleship that God has chosen and designed for us.  

This world is a place of trial and tribulation that constantly whets and prepares our hearts 

for the glories of the world that is yet to come."

(Iain M. Duguid, "Living in the Gap between Promise and Reality")