Pains and Blessings

Some pains and heartaches are unavoidable, but there may be a different way of looking at our struggles. It's just possible that in heaven, those things seen here as quite terrible and horrific, things we will avoid at any cost- will end up being badges of honor. While the world values easy living, stress free days with little sacrifice, I suspect His kingdom may be very different. We may find upon entering that distant land that the things we tried daily to avoid here: heartache, sadness, pain, loneliness, despair, sacrifice- all these things qualify you for kingship there. They will be things to be proud of. What He is allowing you to experience now- so terrible when seen on the surface of it with our finite perspectives, may in the end be something we will drop to our knees and thank Him eternally for allowing us to experience. Those "curses" and "trials", when our eyes are finally opened at the End of Time, might be seen as His greatest gifts to us. One never knows.