Jacob leaned on his staff and praised God. This is how the book of Hebrews remembered him. Not by the feats he accomplished in his time on earth but by his praise to God as he underwent a debilitating pain that kept him from walking without a limp. I often wonder to myself why God would allow chronic pain or disease. I know the answers we give but sometimes the cookie-cutter theological words cannot give one the solace they need amid the trial. Job himself was being lectured by a thousand different “correct” answers yet when all was restored to him it was not Job who was rebuked harshly but rather those who came to correct Job and tell him it was all his fault that he was in anguish. Sometimes there is no real answer that will be the balm for our wounded souls.