In our world today, the places and situations where despair and powerlessness exist continue. People still live in fear, hunger, pain and experience abhorrent and unjust situations. We can look closer to home and remember the bushfires that ravaged large parts of our country. We have just come out of 8 months of lockdown restrictions that have crippled our economy, our community and brought insecurity and struggle to many. Other countries are still being ravaged by the virus. Where is God in suffering? God is in the hope, in the knowing that all human experience contains meaning, even when that meaning is beyond our own understanding.