the lord prepares

so something that hit me really hard today in sunday school i felt the need to share. It is found in James 1:2-3. It says "count it all joy when ye fall into many afflictions knowing this that the trying of your faith worth patience ." This scriptures says that we should be joyful when afflictions come into our lives. They are going to help us become like our Heavenly Father. Another thing i realized is the afflictions that come into our lives cause us to be in a mind set that is searching for answers. Maybe without those afflictions we may not have been open to the information the lord needed to give to us. I know that has happened to me a lot lately. I have been more in a mind set of searching for answers and received so much more than i could have asked for. I know that my father in Heaven answers both voiced and unvoiced concerns we may have. You don't have to believe me, you can do it for yourself. Look back on different trials in your life and realize that more times than not that is when the Lord taught you so many different things. I know this is true.