Ravi Zacharias spoke on the topic of why we have pain and suffering in this world before a group of students at John Hopkins University . Traumatic loss often propels people toward atheism because they simply cannot understand why if there is a God he would allow pain and suffering in this world. This is a long clip and I encourage you to listen to it in shorter installments, but do listen to it. If you desire to read more on grief there are a number of materials on the Lifeway Christian bookstore site: http://www.lifeway.com/Books/c/Keyword-grief/N-1z141mr/Ne-1z141mv