Once upon a time…and theology?

Theologians, professional and amateur alike, which includes all of humanity at some point in their individual existence have pondered the 'problem of pain' as C.S. Lewis termed it since first there was such a difficulty to contemplate.  How can a loving, all-powerful God create something and then let it moulder in brokenness, fraught with pain, sorrow, and death?  The term 'loving God' gives a clue to its own enigma.  The price of Love is risk, the risk of sorrow, because ever the beloved might turn away from or be taken from the lover.  If there is no risk, there cannot be Love, for Love must be a choice, if the beloved has no choice, it is a mindless slave, a robot, an automaton.  Humanity made a bad choice, thus did sorrow come upon the world, but worse, into the very heart of Heaven.  But like the great lover in all the stories, He journeyed through much pain and sorrow to rescue the beloved, at no small cost to Himself.  Now that's a fairy tale!