We turn to Christ in our moments of suffering and trial. Our need is enough for His love. But sometimes he remains away, and we do not understand the message he sends. The crisis comes and goes. Perhaps we are left grief-striken and alone. But one day we shall hear the summons, "The Master is come, and he calleth for thee." Before the open grave he will show us that he is the Resurrection and the Life, and he that believeth on him, though he were dead shall live. Then we shall see the completed pattern of our lives and we shall know that the sorrow and the suffering made up the fulness of his love.

Melva Purkis, A Life of Jesus, page 276