Trials that turned into "blessings in disguise"

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Jesus said to St. Faustina: “Tell sinners that I am always waiting for them, that I listen intently to the beating of their heart…when will it beat for Me? Write, that I am speaking to them through their remorse of conscience, through their FAILURES and SUFFERINGS, through thunderstorms, through the voice of the Church.”

Did you ever have failures and sufferings that turned out to be “blessings in disguise,” because Jesus wanted them to be that way?
 
Thanks for replying. Would you please care to elaborate on it? Sorry, I missed asking what these blessings in disguise are in my first post. 😃
 
I had a swelling on the side of my neck that started to grow and got painful. Then one day I became so ill I had to go to the hospital.

That was when I found out the swelling was caused by a serious infection that would have kept getting worse.
Half an hour of minor surgery later I was cured, and an ongoing danger was gone.

Further, while I was in the hospital anyway, I got some dental work done that ended a long-standing problem in that area.

On top of that I got a new appreciation (which I badly needed) of my own mortality, my need for God, and how generous He has been to me all along.

On top of that I became aware of yet another long standing problem, which I now have the chance to deal with while I still can.

God was multitasking in my life, and I am most thankful that He did. 😄

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wow. Thanks a lot for taking effort to post this truly inspiring testimony of how Jesus works to help us sort out our long-standing problems. And to think it started with a health PROBLEM. Jesus loves you.
 
My depression got worse and worse, to the point that I was being hospitalized for short periods every other month or so, before and after I’d lost my job. Finally I was hospitalized for 6.5 weeks and given 12 ECT (electro-shock) treatments which turned my depression around. The failure of losing my job and the suffering of deepening depression led me to the rock bottom of my illness and to a cure, through the mercy of God. My health and my relationship with God have been getting better ever since. I still cannot work but I volunteer quite a bit, performing acts of mercy when I can.
 
I was handcuffed by TWO bad addictions and on
top of that I have socio-phobia, the fear of ppl,
I got so that I didn’t see a way out and was suicid-
al, I went to the hospital emergency three times,
and the third time they admitted me.
It turned out for the better, b/c I re-found my faith
and my Fear of God, which I lost b/c of my addic-
tions and now am free for two whole months, I
am also getting out and about more and building
up a social network to cope w/ my problems,
God really DID COME THRU, glory, praise and
honor be to Him!!
 
Yes, absolutely.

I am also reminded by this passage from St. Thomas More’s Dialogue of Confort, written while he was imprisoned:

St. Thomas More, from his “Dialogue of Comfort in a Time of Tribulation”
If we lay first, for a sure ground, a very fast faith, whereby we believe to be true all that the scripture saith (understood truly, as the old holy doctors declare it and as the spirit of God instructeth his Catholic Church), then shall we consider tribulation as a gracious gift of God, a gift that he specially gave his special friends; a thing that in scripture is highly commended and praised; a thing of which the contrary, long continued, is perilous; a thing which, if God send it not, men have need to put upon themselves and seek by penance; a thing that helpeth to purge our past sins; a thing that preserveth us from sins that otherwise would come; a thing that causeth us to set less by the world; a thing that much diminisheth our pains in purgatory; a thing that much increaseth our final reward in heaven; the thing with which all his apostles followed him thither; the thing to which our Saviour exhorteth all men; the thing without which he saith we be not his disciples; the thing without which no man can get to heaven.
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Yes. I’d rather not go into it. You’ll just have to believe that I am being truthful and sincere.
 
Yes. Likewise details cannot give, but like four times in my life in huge ways.
 
Yes, in fact if everything went “our way” in this life, whatever that way happens to be at any particular point in time since it’s fickle and changeable, life would be boring, and we’d probably learn nothing. Especially in terms of our need for God.
 
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Oh yes…lost my job teaching in a public school. picked up by local Catholic School. Couldn’t be happier or feel more fulfilled. All through the work of the Lord!
 
Thanks a lot for sharing this passage, Genesis315. I have lots of sufferings, so reading this passage over and over would be a comfort to me. I have just bookmarked it. Thanks again.
 
you’re on the right track, GLam1761. I’m so happy for you. Start building your social network online and later on gradually begin to interact with people on a personal basis. I’m praying that you would eventually overcome your fear of people.
 
Every trial is from the hand of God, positive or permissive.

They all lead to infinite blessings.
 
You’re right, Edward, but it would be truly inspiring as well as encouraging for many people who are currently undergoing trials to read the testimonies of people who made it through. I also would like to know how Jesus worked wonders in the lives of these people.
 
This is precisely why the Church details the lives of saints. There are rich histories to be read there.
 
Yes, ongoing 🙂
Isn’t life like this though?A series of trials that we choose to either grow through or not?
When we choose to grow then look back see a chain of blessings as a result.
 
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The past ten years: Three cancers (2 aggressive T-Cell non-Hodgkin’s Lymphomas + Myelodysplastic syndrome/marrow cancer), stage IV at least twice, 100 tumors total, 2 relapses, one transformation, 9 chemotherapy regimens/18 drugs, 3 clinical trials, a stem cell transplant, Graft-versus-Host-Disease, osteoporosis, type II diabetes, hypertension, radiation-caused cataracts, peripheral neuropathy and a couple I forget right now.

Yet, through all of this, I remembered Bishop Sheen’s words that “life is worth living.” Because of the cancers, I have gone places, met people and had experiences that I would never have otherwise. It shocks people when I tell them that, if it was 2008 again, and given the choice of cancer or good health, I would choose the cancer.

I am striving to embrace, even enjoy suffering for love of God in the model of - in pale imitation of - Saints John of the Cross and Teresa of Avila. One is bonded most closely to Christ through suffering, and communion with Him brings tears.

I am buoyed by Saint Raphael the Archangels’ words to Tobit and Tobias (12:13): “Because you found favor with God, it was necessary that testing should prove you.”

I can find no more comforting words than that.
 
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thanks a lot for taking time to reply, po18guy. Whew. Your story is truly AMAZING. To have survived all those diseases is a testament that GOD has been with you through it all. You have obstinately clung to your faith and God has not failed you. He has helped you endure all your trials and it is evident to me that you’re experiencing peace, joy, and consolation (coming from God) amidst all your sufferings. I admire your unwavering faith and strength. You’re an inspiration to me. God bless you.
 
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