How do you respond to trauma? Do you see it only as an affliction to be endured? Who would welcome it in the moment? Yet can you see the benefits you have obtained by the difficulties you have endured? I have not promised that you would be able to avoid trials, but that when they were over they would strengthen, establish, and settle you. Can you get these things any other way? Trials can devastate you or make you stronger depending on how you view and respond to them. Can you view them as Joseph did and say, what men meant for evil God meant for good, to get the maximum benefit from them?
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