Recently, a friend recommended to me Charles Stanley's How to Handle Adversity. I have found the reading to be most encouraging and desired to share with others going through their own experiences of adversity, that the book may be helpful in providing a fresh perspective during those times.

"Through all the pain and adversity God may allow us to face, two things are always true. First, He is sensitive to what we are feeling: "For we do not have a high priest who cannot sympathize with our weaknesses." --Hebrews 4:15

Second, whatever He is in the process of accomplishing through our suffering will always be for our best interest."

"God is in the process of engineering circumstances through which He can reveal Himself to each of us. And both history as well as our personal testimonies bear witness to the fact that it is in times of adversity that we come to a greater realization of God's incredible faithfulness to us."

We are honed and shaped into Christ' likeness by sharing in His suffering. Fun? No! Worth it? Yes!

Remembering all of you in prayer--for sharing in my present trouble.

~Cath~