That's it? That God/Jesus knows suffering and will hold our hands while we indure? Is that the best She can offer? That a child in Yemen knows she's not starving alone? Yah, that provides lots of comfort.

Now I know hospice work provides end of life sufferers much comfort, but I have several problems with God as a hospice worker:

1. When all your material needs are met, your suffering is ...well... materially different from war victims, the starving, the politically imrisoned, etc., in that you suffer in comfort and your suffering is comprehensable.

2. Hospice workers ply their roles among relatively wealthy nations and people, and even then some don't get their services. So God is a rather selective comforter, not available to those who are in no position to contemplate Her Devine beauty and wisdom in their fated lives or what's left of them.

3. Your explanation of God is but a mental exercise, a reduction of God as a personal perception, frankly available to those with the time, energy, comfort and education to indulge in such speculation. It smacks of hierarchical based division between those who see the light, and those in no position to even look for the light.