Randy Alcorn answered a variety of questions at the 2010 C.S. Lewis SW Regional Retreat and Writers Workshop. In this clip, he answers the question,"How have the books Problem of Pain and Grief Observed influenced your work?"
Is It Fair for a Handicapped Person to Spend a Lifetime in a Wheelchair and Have to Wait Until Heaven to Walk?
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Without an eternal perspective, without understanding the reality that the best is yet to come, we assume that people who die young, who are handicapped, who aren’t healthy, who don’t get married, or who don’t _____ [fill in the blank] inevitably miss out on the best life has to offer.