Suffering

Heavenly Father,

I know that you don’t waste anything. You make all things work together for good. So I ask you not to waste my trials and suffering. Refine me through them. Produce perseverance, character, and hope in me. The kind of perseverance that will enable me to continue to love those around me when it gets hard and to continue to seek you when you seem impossible to find. The kind of character that will make it natural to choose your way when sin seems better and make me a light in this dark world. The kind of hope that does not disappoint but sustains me in the darkest night.

In the name of he who suffered for the joy set before him, Amen.