When the young die tragically and freak accidents reach out at random to destroy good people in their prime-why should we turn for comfort to the same God who makes it happen?

Harold S. Kushner asked that universal "Why?" for ten long years as he lived with the knowledge that his son was doomed by a disease so rare most people have never heard of it.

Through his family's shared ordeal, this distinguished clergyman came to see God as he never had before a God who does weep with us, won't abandon us, and can fill the deepest needs of an anguished heart.