It's all in the way you look at it. Perspective is a weird thing. Wisdom, according to Bill Gothard, is "seeing life from God's perspective". If we can adjust our vision, and look at the world and the things that are happening around us from God's vantage point, everything makes a lot more sense.
Many years ago, Matthew Henry, a well-known Bible scholar, was once robbed of his wallet. Knowing that it was his duty to give thanks in everything, he meditated on this incident and recorded in his diary the following: Let me be thankful, first, because he never robbed me before; second, because although he took my purse, he did not take my life; third, because although he took all I possessed, it was not much; and fourth, because it was I who was robbed, not I who robbed.
(Matthew Henry (1662-1714), English Non-conformist Bible commentator)
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