Being agnostic, you probably aren’t too concerned with the theology behind your question. It’s a common one and there’s certainly a lot of material out there on the topic if you care to read it.

I had some bad stuff happen 10 years ago and my take is this. God never guaranteed life would be good. In fact He said it may be pretty bad. It is guaranteed that what comes after life will be good and will last a long time. It became just a matter of perspective. After a couple trillion years of the good, whether your 2 or 25 or 70 years of life here were bad won’t seem too important. Hope is pretty powerful stuff.

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1982 300TD 279K.
1984 190D 5sp 265K