Some lessons are learned best only through pain.

Sometimes our vision clears only after our eyes are washed with tears.

Sometimes we have to be broken so we can be tender

Sick so we can rest and think better on things more important than work or fun,

Trip near death, so we can assess how we’ve run

Sometimes we have to suffer lack so we can know God’s provision,

Feel another’s pain so we can have a sense of mission. S

o take heart my friend, if you don’t understand today,

Instead of grumbling, ask God what he means to say,

In order to learn you must endure, And learn to see the bigger picture.

That takes what is good, and gives what is best

And on this blessed thought, rest As your anxious heart,

with questions waits God’s hand only gives what his loving heart dictates.

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