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I have gone through some major hardships in my life.  I have been divorced twice and at one point lost physical custody of my children due to an unfortunate incident with my second husband.  My current husband fell and hurt his back. He had three surgeries over three years without being able to work.  We lost our house and our two cars.  We were very disheartened through all of this.  Many people in our church and around us asked how we kept surviving through it all.  I kept answering God must have a plan for us but that I didn’t know what that meant.  He was allowing us to go through these trials for some reason. 

Recently we had the best sermon at church and I realized finally why we went through all these struggles.  God did this to refine us and to pull us closer to Him.  By these struggles we can come through them and give Glory to God for all He has done and helped us through.  So now if someone asks us how how we came through these events, I will tell them so we could give Glory to God. 

As our Pastor says almost always the answer is “To Glorify God.”

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