One of the most transformative things for me in my journey of suffering was learning to give thanks FOR the difficult things in my life. Not “in spite of” but “FOR,” as in: “Thank you, Father for this pain. Thank you for our current financial difficulties. Thank you for our car troubles,” and so on.

This was so difficult for me to do. And yet, when I finally did it, gritting my teeth, saying as an act of will, it began to change everything for me. If there is one episode I want EVERYONE to hear, it is this one. I hope and pray that you, too, can experience the transforming power of giving thanks to God for absolutely everything in your life, even the things that you might not want to thank him for, the things you think of as bad.

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