Sickness

To think that my frequent ailments come by chance through the education industry is one hypothesis, though I think an incorrect one. To believe and know that they are a appointed by my Heavenly Father is another. I can wonder why I often fall sick and reason through a box of tissues that my illness is a result of XYZ cause. I also often wish away my illness and complain about it, but something that I read today challenged my soul.

"I bear my witness that the worst days I have ever had have turned out to be my best days. And when God seemed most cruel to me, he has then been most kind. If there is anything in this world for which I would bless him more than for anything else, it is for pain and affliction. I am sure that in these things the richest, tenderest love has been manifested to me. Our Father's wagons rumble most heavily when they are bringing us the richest freight of the bullion of his grace. Love letters from heaven are often sent in black-edged envelopes. The cloud that is black with horror is big with mercy. Fear not the storm. It brings healing in its wings, and when Jesus is with you in the vessel, the tempest only hastens the ship to its desired haven."
"Suffering"
from 2200 Quotations by Charles H. Spurgeon

I have most keenly seen God's faithfulness to me in times of trial and sickness, but admit I do not have the apparent faith of Spurgeon. Even as I write this post, I think I would have been running around doing something else if I could better move, rather than pour over God's word and the writings of those He uses to build our faith.