Today I am struck by the realization of how God makes all things work together for our good. I have experienced both pain and blessing in my life, and I have come to see that His presence is what makes life wonderful, not our circumstances. There is a strange paradox in this truth. Some of the most blessed seasons of my life were not happy ones, simply because I gave too little attention to Him. Pain and suffering have a way of driving us straight to the well of living water.