"Does God care?" I know of only one way to answer that question and it has come through my study of the life of Jesus. In Jesus, God gave us a face, and I can see directly in that face how God feels about us as a people...By no means did Jesus eliminate all suffering - He healed only a few in one small patch of the globe - but He did signify an answer to the question of whether God cares.
Philip Yancey, "The Jesus I Never Knew," page 160