This troubled him greatly, and caused him to wonder what to think. Kushner looked to the book of Job in the Bible. In it, Job loses his family, wealth, and got a disease. Job is told he did something and that is why he is suffering, a technique called �blaming the victim.� Finally, God gave it all and more back to him, and said it was all just a test of his faith.

There are three fundamental ideas crucial to this story. First, God is all-powerful. Second, God is good, kind, and just, and third, Job is a good man. In the story, Job says God is all-powerful and that he is a good man, therefore, God is not good. However, Kushner disagrees and says God is good and Job is a good man, but God is not all-powerful. He says this because there are things in the world - nature - which God cannot control. God gave us a world with natural law and it has its own course. Laws of nature exist and do not know good from bad, thus making nature amoral.

�Human beings are God�s language,� Kushner quotes. God comes through people coming to comfort us when we are sad or going through hard times. Kushner says you should reach out and show people you care - do not wait for people to ask for help because you are afraid, instead come forward, and help them. Also, when trying to comfort someone, all you need to do is say, �I�m sorry,� and then listen because people want consolation and reassurance, not an explanation of tragedy. He also says that when we run out of strength we look to God for assurance and he gives us more. Ordinary people do extraordinary things, and God gives us the strength to do so.

Finally, when confronted with tough times like the death of a son, as Kushner faced, then do not ask, �Why� because that deals with the past, instead, ask �What am I going to do now?� Ultimately we have to forgive the world for being unfair, and forgive God for not making a perfect world. We must look to the future, and not linger in the past.