“I remember once reading words to this effect–that, the moment we come into any trial or difficulty, our first thought should be, not how soon can we escape from it, or how may we lessen the pain we shall suffer from it, but how we can best glorify God in it, and most quickly learn the lesson which he desires to teach us by it. Had we grace and faith enough to do this, our trials and troubles would be but as so many steps by which we should climb to the mountain top of continual fellowship and peace with God. The soul that has learned the blessed secret of seeing God’s hand in all that concerns it, cannot be a prey to fear; it looks beyond all second causes, straight into the heart and will of God, and rests content because he rules.” ~ from Susannah Spurgeon: Free Grace and Dying Love