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Count it All Joy: The Ridiculous Paradox of Suffering Author Melody Carlson s annual seminars on theCan joy come from suffering? We think of suffering as the worst of all evils. Our culture tells us to avoid it at all costs. But can suffering produce growth in us when we learn to endure it . . . then value it . . . then allow God to redeem it? John Perkins? response to suffering at the hands of a white sheriff in a Mississippi jail became the springboard that God used to put him in front of U. S. presidents, international politicians, and