Rejoicing Heart

There is another morning for every evening.

20 Truly, truly, I say to you, you will weep and lament, but the world will rejoice; you will be sorrowful, but your sorrow will turn into joy.
21 When a woman is in travail she has sorrow, because her hour has come; but when she is delivered of the child, she no longer remembers the anguish, for joy that a child is born into the world.
22 So you have sorrow now, but I will see you again and your hearts will rejoice, and no one will take your joy from you.
23 In that day you will ask nothing of me. Truly, truly, I say to you, if you ask anything of the Father, he will give it to you in my name.-John16:20-23

Nothing lasts forever. When a mother is in labor, the pain seems forever and almost 50% of her body is buried in the ground. Like her, though we find ourselves in deep trouble, in extreme suffering, or endless hopelessness and despair, yet one day, it will all end. And when it does end, there is only happiness, rejoicing and gratitude that we have surpassed the test and emerged as better persons and much stronger. Above all, we have learned and have grown closer to God.

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