I'm happy for you!!!

God works everything out....I know that. But it's really hard to remember in the middle of everything that goes on. You just think, God, why me? Why now? Why this? I wasn't ready for this. But obviously He knows that you are. Would you ever really be ready to face something tough? If God let everything go smoothly until we thought we were "ready" to face adversities and tests, we would become "spoiled Christians" as my friend Bill put it. Just like if you give your child everything that they ask for and never let them get into situations where they have to work thier way out, they would be spoiled, and they would be completely unprepared for the "real world". If God never tested us (as the speaker said Monday night)"to pass", or succeed, then when the real trials come, we would be totally unprepared. So He knows what He is doing.

Praise Him!