Life.

Sometimes, it feels like life is happening with us and for us and it feels full of joy and freedom and love and goodness.

Other times, it feels like life is happening against or without us and it feels full of grief, sadness, being alone, feeling rejected or left behind.

The unexpected twists and turns, the best laid plans falling apart before our eyes, and learning to navigate a world that we have limited control over can lead us to a desire to cry out to God with questions, tears, and deep sighs of exasperation over the suffering we are experiencing.