Suffering...

‎"Serenity in suffering is a stirring testimony. Anybody can preach a sermon on a mount surrounded by daisies. But only one with a gut full of faith can live a sermon on a mountain of pain."(~Max Lucado) Dear God~Oh, how I wish suffering was an option and not an opportunity. But in this world there will be troubles, heartaches, abandonment and pain. How we face it reflects what we truly believe. May my temporary suffering here strengthen my hope in You and eternity there. ♥~thl  "Your attitude should be the same as that of Christ Jesus:  Who, being in very nature God, did not consider equality with God something to be grasped, but made himself nothing, taking the very nature of a servant, being made in human likeness, and being found in appearance as a man, he humbled himself and became obedient to death--even death on a cross!  Therefore God exalted him to the highest place and gave him the anem that is above every name, that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, in heaven and on earth and under the earth, and every tongue confesss that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father."  Philippians 2: 5>11