966B: Praise for the Planner; Praise for the Plan
We are who we are because of what God has allowed us to go through. Others are looking at God through what we have become as a result of what we have been through; and our very ministries will in most cases be the result of passing on to others the same grace that God gives us. The issue then, isn't simply learning to accept those things as something we could not help, but rather the secret is learning to turn the past into praise.