It is easy to think that we should put up a brave front and stay positive about all our struggles. But that is not the biblical model. - John Townsend Trowbridge

I can’t keep count of the times when I have seen how hard times make people much more relationally accessible than they were before their difficulty.

Where do you go when hard times hit? Most of the time, our tendency is to enter our internal cave…we naturally shut down, withdraw from it all, and try to figure things out on our own, reemerging from life when we have some sense of centeredness.

I would not feel a lot of trust or hope in God if He was simply in touch with me without any impetus, power, or force to accomplish things. You may not always know the end game, but He is working for you.