Why is there suffering and tragedy? Ronald Higdon takes his 55 years of ministry to wrestle with these questions, helped by writers as diverse as escaped slave Frederick Douglass, Holocaust survivor Victor Frankl, and actor Michael J. Fox. Whether it be the a frustrated, conquered people, the death in a German concentration camp, the death of a child (including his own son), illness. disease, or aging, Higdon avoids easy answers, Instead he suggests some unexpected conclusions. A list of 25 strategies to dealing with the bad things we encounter concludes the book, which can be used as a study. It is a short but challenging work that delivers the reader to a road that can lead to hope.