Ecclesiastes (7:13) is "Consider what God has done: Who can straighten what he has made crooked?" Thomas Boston (1676-1732) wrote a wonderful book on this "The Crook in the Lot" which I found amazingly helpful. Boston was a pastor and lived a very obscure life in a tiny Scottish town called Ettrick. Crucially, he was well acquainted with suffering and the book is permeated with deep wisdom from the many sufferings that came into his "lot". He struggled with a hostile church that was deeply divided. His wife Catherine was a chronic depressive. Not surprising when one reads that of their 10 children 6 died in infancy. They had already buried one son called Ebenezer (which means "Up to now has God helped us") when they had another son born. Should they risk calling him Ebenezer also, given the tragically ironic nature of the name if he also died? They did name him Ebenezer and he also died.