We are called to be people who stand at the place of pain — in the cancer ward, at the asylum-seeker’s court hearing, by the graveyard full of memorials to small children or to families whose homes have been bombed by ward — so as to be those within whose own painful perplexity the Holy Spirit will plead to the father on behalf of the whole creation. Indwelt by God’s spirit, we are to be right there in the chaos, so that God’s new creation may finally emerge, this time with humans as its spirit-enabled agents. (NT Wright, Into the Heart of Romans, p. 150)