Hard Times

“I heard you had a hard time in your last location [on the road for Jesus],” a brother in the Lord said one day as we hadn’t seen each other in several months and happened to cross paths.

My response was vastly different than it would have been in the past. The self-pity, complaining, groaning, etc. were absent.

I effectively told him that yes, it had been hard, but that God had done a really big work in the midst of it. In retrospect, I could see He had done one in me and through me. My heart a...