This is an important and touchy topic. I hope you'll take a listen to the longer answer here -
In that link I cover the difference between offering this phrase as an explanation (not good) and offering it freely as a statement of faith. I also cover in more detail how beautiful it is for a hurting person to say it yet how potentially unwise it is for someone to say it to them as a sort of command.
My website
Don’t Say "The Lord Gives And The Lord Takes Away"? For Country: United States. City: Burlington, Chandler, Gilbert, Lancaster, Waterbury
