The Lord could remove all the challenges from our lives. But if we never faced things too hard to do alone, how would we learn to reach out to Him for help?

When I was a little girl, I wasn't allowed to play in the creek in the park unsupervised, so I'd get as close as possible until I "accidentally" fell in! It's better to avoid tempting situations instead.

Viktor Frankl wrote, in Man's Search for Meaning, that if there is meaning in life, there is meaning in suffering. Suffering's purpose is to help us become acquainted with God.