What do you say?

What do you say to someone who has just experienced a personal tragedy? I can't say it was God's will. It wasn't God's will that caused tragedy to happen. Before this week's Sunday school lesson I might have said that, but this week's lesson was about the choices we make. God's will is not involved in those choices. We make a good choice, and please God. Or, we make a wrong choice and face God's discipline. God doesn't allow bad things to happen. To say that means that He approves of sin. We know that isn't so. Bad things happen because a bad choice has been made. Many times we suffer because of someone else's bad choice. So what do you say to someone who is hurting because of bad choices made by another? I don't know. I can tell them that I will pray for them. I ask God to comfort them and give them strength to get through the next few days, weeks, months. What else can I say? I can't take the hurt away. I can't change what happened.