Although I have found many excellent online resources for coping with grief, almost none of them mention what I have found to be the two most important things that have been enormously helpful for me.
All in Suffering
Why a Perfectly Just God Will Seem Unjust
Since we judge other people according to our own sense of justice, when we disagree with another person’s sense of justice, they will appear unjust to us. If our sense of justice is not perfect, we are likely to disagree with some aspects of perfect justice. Therefore, a perfectly just God will seem unjust to us.
Why evil and injustice point to the existence of God
Just as it makes no sense to talk about a high crime rate if there are no laws to break, in the same way we cannot take evil and injustice seriously unless there is some ultimate standard of beauty and goodness that is being violated.
Why Did God Ask Abraham to Sacrifice His Son?
“I find a father holding a knife to his son’s throat to show his love to a totalitarian dictator wicked!” was the late atheist Christopher Hitchens’ response to the biblical account of God telling Abraham to sacrifice his son. There is simply no reason to get upset about the story unless it is true, after all, we do not take seriously what a fictitious villain does in a faery tale. It only becomes worthy of being upset about if it actually happened, so let us accept the event as true and look at the account.