When Im out speaking I get asked some great questions. Whether IM with a trauma survivor, or a church group, the questions are very similar, but different. If they are in the midst of going through something horrific, they want to know when it will end and they will be happy again. I always wait and then answer with what I've found to always be true. Let it go or it won't. That usually sounds bad, but I mean it to be good. If you don't let it go and expect everything to return back to what you knew after a bad event, whatever that event is, you will never be happy again. When I got hurt, I asked God to heal me and make me whole again. Guess what, He didn't. Now taken on the surface that sucks. Really. But once I figured out that what whole is now, is NOT the whole I once knew, life got a lot better. Yes, better. Once I saw that God's plan for my healing was a great plan, better then the plan I had, I could relax and focus on the things I really should worry about. I think as people we want things to stay the same, the problem is they never do and we have to be able to react well. I saw that He had a plan for me that went far beyond what I was thinking. If seven years ago you asked me if I'd like to cut my leg off,fuse my back, and have a nerve disorder and chronic pain the rest of my life I would of course said no. But today, I wouldn't change it at all. I now see Gods plan for all those injuries and I embrace my new "whole" today. The ending may not be the happy one we envision, but it is the ending our Creator has been crafting since we were in the womb. Once you realize that, things become very easy, and the happiness and wholeness returns. Peace. c