Hmmmmm...So your response is that you never question why? And so consequently your prayers are always of the thankful variety? I guess I find that hard to believe.

Have you ever watched somebody, a child let's say, waste away from a long, painful illness? What do you pray then, besides the obvious "Lord please help end this person's terrible suffering". Can you really tell me that you thank God while you watch your loved one die a slow terrible death? Do you praise him while this person groans in pain, regardless of the medication given? To be perfecttly honest, at that point, I don't really care about the long range "purpose" I end up questioning "Why".

Maybe that is just my self centered, merely human ego talking, but I find it hard to believe in a time like that, that most people don't at some point question why.

If you fact you never have questioned why, then good for you, although I still find it hard to believe......maybe even absurd (do use your word).

I am sure that God has the whole world in his hands, but ego or not I sometimes really question whether he has a firm grip of everyone.

And to give the impression that questioning or asking for "understanding" of a situation is purely human ego, and "beyond absurd" just widens the gap between those that profess in a somwewhat self rightous way, to be knowledgeable and firm in there faith, and those that are still searching.