I would love to share some encouraging words with you that Aggie in Fiji shared in her Restore Your Relationships, Chapter 3 "The Potter and the Clay" Journal:
"'I believe our trials just makes us draw closer to an intimate relationship with our HH. It squeezes all the impurities from our hearts..There is freedom experienced in the potter's hand. After having the heart aches when I started seeking the Lord it gave me freedom. The bondage and burden of what so weighed us down was lifted through the refining process. Now when I look back it was all worth it. There is no value that we can measure to put on that beautiful intimacy with the Lord. Nothing can be compared to what we feel being alone in the presence of God and having a heart-to-heart conversation with our Heavenly Husband. He understands every pain and heart ache. He touches and heals the area of unforgiveness, bitterness, rage and anger.'
'Learn to submit to the Process of what God is doing. Let God take control. Submit when given an opportunity..Seek the Lord's face for he will tell us all the answers.'"
"To bring your sons from afar,
Their silver and their gold with them,
For the name of the Lord your God,
And for the Holy One of Israel because He has glorified you.
“Foreigners will build up your walls,
And their kings will minister to you;
For in My wrath I struck you,
And in My favor I have had compassion on you.
“Your gates will be open continually;
They will not be closed day or night,
So that men may bring to you the wealth of the nations,
“The sons of those who afflicted you will come bowing to you,
And all those who despised you will bow themselves at the soles of your feet;
And they will call you the city of the Lord,
The Zion of the Holy One of Israel.
“Whereas you have been forsaken and hated
With no one passing through,
I will make you an everlasting pride,
A joy from generation to generation." (I60)
This is so beautiful what Fiji shared in her journal dear Adina, I agree when I look back at all my hurt it was for sure worth it, because what I have now I couldn’t even have imagined, a Love that surpasses all understanding.