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Why do good people have to suffer?

When I was the pastor of the University United Methodist Church in Wichita, Kansas, in 1984, I was having a problem with a kidney stone. For months I suffered and then I was hospitalized for the removal of the kidney stone. Surgery was the only way. After the surgery, I got an infection, so I was hospitalized for one week instead of three days. I learned a great deal from my experience of suffering, but I remember asking the questions, “Why me, Lord? What have I done?

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