God in suffering

I love talking about God with people. Everybody always has a different idea, perception, and view on the existence and/or purpose of God. The thing that I find most often that people have issues with, is trying to understand how God can let such horrible things happen. This issue has crossed my mind, and many of those that I talk to. How can God let bombs go off in Boston? How can God cause a fertilizer explosion in West, Texas? If God is a compassionate, loving God, why is there suffering at all? It's a hard one to answer and I've come to terms with it by accepting that God is beyond human knowledge. The pain that we deal with and experience is not understood to us the way it is understood by God. I believe in a God working toward an ultimate goodness for all people, and if suffering for me and millions of people in the world is part of his plan, then so be it. I trust that through God, on the other side of it all, is His love. We just may not be able to see it just yet.