There is a big difference between everyday interruptions, nuisances, and stress and life-altering calamities. Susanna Wesley, who wrote the words of the prayer above, was a woman who knew intimately the painful crush of afflictions and loss. Twice the parsonage she shared with her husband, Samuel, and their children was burned, reducing nearly all they owned to smoldering ashes. She lived in an era when any relief from winter’s cold came from fireplaces in their home, so sadly house fires were not uncommon. Neither was infant and childhood death a rare experience as it is for most families in our day. Of her 18 children, only 10 survived to adulthood. This woman knew grief, poverty and daily survival battles most of us never will. And yet
Difficulty Turned Good
Difficulty Turned Good
Difficulty Turned Good
There is a big difference between everyday interruptions, nuisances, and stress and life-altering calamities. Susanna Wesley, who wrote the words of the prayer above, was a woman who knew intimately the painful crush of afflictions and loss. Twice the parsonage she shared with her husband, Samuel, and their children was burned, reducing nearly all they owned to smoldering ashes. She lived in an era when any relief from winter’s cold came from fireplaces in their home, so sadly house fires were not uncommon. Neither was infant and childhood death a rare experience as it is for most families in our day. Of her 18 children, only 10 survived to adulthood. This woman knew grief, poverty and daily survival battles most of us never will. And yet