Trials

I am in the midst of a few trials in my life. I was talking to a friend online and she gave me advice that was so overpowering and inspiring that I have to tell anyone who cares to read this about it.

When I have heard talks about trials and how trials sculpt people into becoming better most of the time people used the analogy of clay. I was always fine with this analogy, but in the midst of a trial things are much harder than the pliable clay that is used in the usual analogy. My friend wrote me today saying,

"You know, trials seem so big and huge and hard when you're going through them. It hurts so much to be sculpted. Some people use clay for this particular analogy. I see the Lord sculpting in granite. It's really hard to see what someone is trying to make when they start in on a block of granite, and it seems so much more destructive. Sometimes you're looking at it, and you think you see what's being made, just to have the Sculptor take out an essential part of it, which leaves you reeling. You don't understand why He took off that particular chunk, because you can't see what He has in mind. But later, as you see more and more of the piece, you understand why it had to be that way."

It was the perfect thing that could have been said to me at this time in my life. School has not been enjoyable for an extended period of time which is the first time I can remeber this happening since starting University. This is only the tip of the iceburg to my trial, but it is something that I know will help me to be a much better person in the long run. Sometimes I wish that trials would come one at a time and last for an hour and be done with it.

If any of you remember 2 years ago I was sick and going through at that time the worst trial in my life. I am greatful for the lessons in life that my trials have taught me. I would be nieve without the experiances. There is a hope that trials at some point will end if not now, at the second coming. I hope to keep these in mind as I try to see the benifits of current trials.