I wrote about about Job's miserable comforters today and I was reminded about Emma's excellent post on impatience with patients.
When we ask "How are you?" we want the answer "Better now, I applied your miracle cure and everything's fixed." But if there's long-term illness, we find it very difficult to handle because we don't have the Innocent Sufferer at the heart of our thinking and we naturally believe a 'gospel' of works.