Blessed is the crisis that made you grow, the fall that made you gaze up to heaven, the problem that made you look for God.! St. Padre Pio

Sometimes God allows things to happen to us to get our attention. Without realizing it, these may be graces from God. We may see them as difficulties, but God sees them as opportunities to draw us closer to him. It is all in how we perceive the working of God in our lives. St. Paul experienced many negative situations, from imprisonment to shipwreck, from beatings to rejection. Rather than becoming despondent and thinking that God had abandoned him, he saw these as opportunities to serve the Lord in greater ways. Don't miss the graces that God is giving you through these difficult moments and trials.