Difficulties are what makes us strong inside. A life of comfort soothes the flesh and makes you relax lulling you to sleep. Heaven is not filled with floaters but battlers. The harder it is for us, the more beneficial the outcome. We have to view everything as coming from God, the good, the bad and the ugly because He has allowed it for a reason but we can't see that right now.

Garth Brooks sang that "God's greatest gifts are unanswered prayers". I found this to be so true for the big "stuff" and the small "stuff" too.