God suffers with us, entering human experience and living each moment with us. The cross is the symbol of that radical truth, a mystery profound enough for our most difficult hour. The second theme is God's apparent weakness. Logic dictates that God is either unaware of the suffering or unable or unwilling to change it. But faith affirms God's presence and final victory over all forces of evil.
Faith lives with ambiguity.
Suffering remains a mystery, tugging us to seek understanding while we experience God's silence. We are left with trust against trust, hope against hope. Praying the Christian faith begins and ends in ambiguity. We are never closer to God than in the experience of God's silence. We are never further from God than when we think we have manipulated a miracle.