The funny little cow meets a human in the worst way possible-the man steps on her. From this painful first meeting the two become friends. The funny little cow discovers her new friend is a pastor (she calls him a pasture), and he knows a lot about pain and why God allows something that feels so bad to exist.

The pastor has another friend, a fourteen-year-old girl named Hailey. The little cow can't pronounce Hailey's name either-she says Hayleaves. Hailey has cancer, which causes her pain and suffering. Together, the pastor and the funny little cow explore the reasons for pain and...

Everyone lives by faith. It is impossible to not do so. Thus it is paramount that we carefully choose where we place our faith. Faith is merely a measure of the strength of our beliefs in the ideas, the people, the disciplines, the religions, and any other things that we hold to be true. The ones we accept with the highest degree of certainty are the things we hold with the greatest faith. The things we believe in the most and that exert the greatest bearing on our lives and existence are the things we can say we live by faith in. Faith is not easy though. It comes with risk. It comes with...