Trials

[Drich]

I sat in a cancer ward waiting area for 4 hours Thursday... I kinda gathered that.

The waits aren't really the hard part. You've got a lot to learn, and hopefully, you'll have a lot of time.

Best wishes on a speedy recovery.

I did not mean to say waiting in a waiting room was difficult. I was point out that after 4 hours in a cancer ward one see how harsh cancer and it's treatment can be on someone.

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Drich, don't you think... that none of the bad stuff should have happened in the first place?!

I only use the term 'bad stuff' because I know that is how you all would identify it. I do not see it as bad. I see it as sometimes difficult, but nessary for me to be who it is I am supposed to be. I honestly do not even pray to avoid this stuff any more. I often times will turn into it and ask God to help me learn what it is I am supposed to learn quickly so a given trial may end, or give me what I need to honorably see it through to the end whatever that may mean.

The thing with 'bad stuff' is that the worse it is and the more lost you become the greater liklyhood that you will get in so deep you will honestly know with all of your being that any intervention from a certain point of disparity can only come from God... Again I know one instance can be broken like a twig as an anomoly... But a life time of knocking will yeild a mass of instances so great that I can not be broken. The thing is, one can not accumiulate such a mass of 'proof' without learning to live life though the difficult stuff.

That is why the story of Job is so important. Many of you ask why Job was made to endure such hardship. I personally think everything that happened to Job, was less about job and more about everyone else who seeks to serve God, and all they will have to endure to change their hearts to meet God on His terms. The thing Job taught us was if you 'let go and let God' sure you made find some hardship, you may find a whole lot of harship (It all depends on how hard your heart is.) but when you do let Go as Job Did God will carry you through your trial and place you in a position far better than anything you could ever want for yourself.