When you think of the hardest thing you have ever gone through in your life, what do you think of? What is your story? Who helped you get through it? Do you still think about it often? What emotions come with it: sadness, anger, happiness, sweet memories, bitterness? Are you better for it?
Some of the people I admire the most are those who have gone through great struggles and have overcome. Some of the people I pity the most are those who have gone through great struggles and became a victim of circumstance. I think it's like watching a chick flick~ you want and expect the couple to fall in love and wind up together... to beat the odds and make it work. If on those rare occasions you find one where they don't, you feel like you have been cheated out of an hour and a half of your life, and have this empty feeling like something should have happened but didn't.
Now in saying this I don't mean to insinuate that there is not a healing period or that there will never be down moments, but if we allow ourselves to live in the down moments and don't press forward we cheat not only ourselves but others out of the great opportunities every great challenge brings along with it.
I love that verse that talks about God working all things out for the good of those who love Him because it gives great hope in the fact that if we are living for Him, He is going to make sure that everything works out for the good.... No matter how terrible it may seem at the time. I think this allows us to see more readily the opportunities before us, to use our struggles to help others, sometimes even ourselves when we run across similar situations in life. Dare to see the good in every situation!
"And we know that in all things God works for the good of those who love Him, who have been called according to His purpose." ~ Romans 8:28
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