All joy?

Once again, I've been thinking about suffering. How many people cause it. How many people endure it. How much of it there seems to be. Many people have made some good points in sharing their views about suffering and God's role in it, others have simply used it as an excuse to dismiss God.

This has been forwarded to me several times so let me share it with you. Sometimes it helps to see there may be a purpose in it.

(My apologies to whoever originally created it - I'd give credit if I could but I've not been able to find any source for it. Thank you for depicting it this way.)

Consider it all joy, my brethren, when you encounter various trials, knowing that the testing of your faith produces endurance. And let endurance have its perfect result, so that you may be perfect and complete, lacking in nothing. James 1:2-4 (ASV)