"After you have suffered a little while, the God of all grace, who has called you to his eternal glory in Christ, will himself restore, confirm, strengthen, and establish you." 1 Peter 5:10. This “little while” is a lifetime. But it is a vapor’s breath compared to eternal glory.
Sometimes the things we think we want most aren’t always what we really need — and how the seasons we’d like to fast forward through are the very ones we so desperately need.