Professional baseball player John Olerud's daughter has a rare genetic disease. During one of her medical treatments, the Boston Red Sox first baseman held his infant daughter while doctors attempted to insert an IV. Olerud described the look in her eyes this way: What's going on? I thought you were my dad, protecting me, and you're holding me down and allowing them to poke me? How can you say you love me and let somebody do this? Knowing that even if he could tell her why all this was happening, she wouldn't understand, Olerud could only say, "You've just got to trust me."

Olerud saw an important faith lesson in that experience. "Sometimes with our suffering, you look to God and say, 'God, this does not make any sense. I'm getting hammered here, and you could change it.' I'm sure he's looking at us saying, 'I can't tell you why I'm doing this. It is in your best interest. You just have to trust me.'"