Consider it pure joy, my brothers and sisters, whenever you face trials of many kinds, because you know that the testing of your faith produces perseverance, let perseverance finish its work so that you may be mature and complete, not lacking anything. Prayer loving father, when life throws difficulties my way, feeling joyful goes against everything inside me. But your word teaches me that you use all things for my good and your glory, and that includes the rotten things that happen