Life often leads us down paths we don't want to take. It gives us burdens we don't want to carry. If forces a change we don't want to make. We have to respond whether we like it or not. But the end result brings something out of us we'd never learn on an easier path. God's ways are not our ways. They're better and higher than our ways. Deuteronomy 32:3-4 "I will proclaim the name of the Lord. Oh, praise the greatness of our God! He is the Rock, his words are perfect, all his ways are just. A faithful God who does no wrong, upright and just is he".

adapted from the book "Contagious Joy"