Why does God allow children to suffer?

Wish to do the right thing—it is not more serious than that. 

It is only if the influence could be great enough to turn you from the light to darkness that real evil could come. 

When you come here, and see things as they are, you will say that it was like a child on a long journey that grows very tired, that stumbles and falls, but the parent brings that child safe home at last, and that is the only point that counts in the reckoning up. 

The child is safe home at last in her Father's house, and the great Father of us all knows how to wipe out sad memories and all those things which we would forget, and in their place gives joy and peace and understanding. Gain comfort and comprehension of what physical life really represents, above all make your own the thought of the mighty, overwhelming love of the Father Who never loses patience with his children, Who never wishes He had left them behind. 

He knows that in time the child will recognise the link between them when He can do for that child, and give to that child all that his heart longs to, and then the love between them is complete.

—The Christ Messenger, Zodiac