Have you ever asked the Lord to remove a trial? I remember years after I fell into the ravine, about every four month or so I’d say to the Lord, “I can’t take this anymore.” I didn’t understand in those days what I’ve learned through perseverance and character development.

Steve and Ginny Saint had four children ~ three boys and a girl. Steve and Stephenie were really close. She had been gone for the summer on a music tour. The day she came home, family and friends had gathered to welcome her with a party.

She got a headache and said she was going to her room. Headache intensified. As she lay in the hospital, dying from a massive aneurysm, Steve prayed. I wrote his words in the front of my Bible. 

“If I asked God to change things, and He gave in to me, how would my change alter the rest of His plan? I do not want to ask God for what I desperately wanted in the short run, only to find out it had cost us what God wanted for us in the long run.”