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.

A Martin Handcart company survivor testified that his suffering, the price that he paid to become acquainted with God, was a privilege to pay. He was grateful for it. When he was so weak from illness and starvation that he could barely walk, he would tell himself, I can pull my handcart to the next patch of sand or next incline, and then I have to stop. But he found when he reached that sand or that incline, the cart started pushing him. He looked behind him many times but ne