Thorn in the Flesh: When God Doesn't Take Away the Pain by F. L. Stone
A couple of quotes that stood out to me:
The point was God’s answer to Paul’s plea for deliverance: “My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness” (v. 9). This mysterious proclamation of hope speaks of pain in the strange way that’s confounded humanity from the ancient times of Job to the present: the idea that not only can the most inexplicable pain have value, but that the very presence of God can actually come to inhabit suffering and make it into something altogether different.
And further down in the article...
[God's epic response] was speaking to those of us who have done everything we possibly can to deal with chronic depression and yet continue to have no mental energy for anything, no matter how well things are going. Or those of us trapped inside our bodies or minds by some disability that keeps us from interacting the way we want to with the rest of the world. Or even those of us who have tried again and again but can’t get pregnant or stay pregnant when that’s the one thing we’ve always wanted—or those of us who just desperately long for our family to stay intact but know it isn’t within our control.
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