Encouragement

Powerful words spoken by another Mom in the midst of a tough battle with her daugher.
She said...

I read something the other day that was an encouragement. It didn't serve to say that our days would get easier, rather that they would be purpose filled. I would so desperately love for all of this to go away, to go back to the days before. Life with more innocence, or maybe just more naivety. I know no one would ever want to travel this road and yet there are many families that have no choice. However, God uses these children mightily even in their suffering. Here is the excerpt that I read..

"When your faith endures many conflicts and your spirit sinks low, do not condemn yourself. There is a reason for your season of heaviness. Great soldiers are not made without war. Skillful sailors are not trained on the shore. It appears that if you are to become a great believer you will be greatly tested. If you are to be a great helper to others, you must pass through their trials. The uncut diamond has little brilliance, the unthreshed corn feeds no one, and the untried believer is of little use or beauty. There are great benefits to come from your trials and depression....... Charles Spurgeon. "

I have pondered these very words a lot and still do not have very many answers. I do however remain in a journey towards trust that good will come come from this horrific trial. Don't get me wrong signs of this "good" have been showing up all along but it is all a matter of perspective for us in particular. We are walking a journey to release that claim to "good" and walk with the attitude of being used to fulfill a greater purpose in life and to do our part to bring glory to God.
You see "good" to us is a place where we are a family of six for real here on this earth. So we are left to walk daily on a journey of acceptance of being called to another purpose and releasing our anger towards not being in control of any of it.