We tend to think that if we're suffering, then something is wrong. We may feel it's the fault of someone in our lives, due to their behavior. Or, we may blame ourselves for seemingly poor life choices.
Yet, suffering is the very thing that God uses to refine us into pure vessels.
"He wants us to be, not hothouse plants, but storm-beaten oaks; not sand dunes driven with every gust of wind, but granite rocks withstanding the fiercest storms. To make us such, he must needs bring us into His testing room of suffering." ~Streams in the Desert
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'Joseph ' whose feet they hurt in the stocks: the iron entered into his soul' (Taken from the Book of Common Prayer, 1662, Psalms 105:18)
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