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		<title>Life’s Painful Experiences</title>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>Life's painful experiences are really teachers for your learning, to bring you to the realization that, discipline and integrity are the order of the day.</p>
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										<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div><img decoding="async" width="300" height="154" src="https://thoughtsaboutgod.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/painful-experiences-300x154.jpg" class="attachment-medium size-medium wp-post-image" alt="Life&#039;s Painful Experiences" style="margin-bottom: 10px;" srcset="https://thoughtsaboutgod.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/painful-experiences-300x154.jpg 300w, https://thoughtsaboutgod.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/painful-experiences-768x395.jpg 768w, https://thoughtsaboutgod.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/painful-experiences.jpg 998w" sizes="(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px" /></div><h4><span style="color: #808080;">A poem for those going through hard times.</span></h4>
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<p style="text-align: center;">Life&#8217;s painful experiences are really teachers<br />
for your learning, to bring you to the realization that,<br />
discipline and integrity are the order of the day.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">What a price you pay for every indiscretion.<br />
There is a price to pay for every careless mistake<br />
Yes, the pain seems greater than you can bear.<br />
Yet the comfort of the word rings out from<br />
<span style="color: #800000;"><strong>Proverbs 3:5&amp;6</strong></span> &#8221; <em><strong>Trust in the Lord with</strong></em><br />
<em><strong>all thine heart, and lean not unto thine own under-</strong></em><br />
<em><strong>standing.&#8217; In all thy ways acknowledge him, and he</strong></em><br />
<em><strong>shall direct thy path</strong></em>&#8220;</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">You now realize the folly of putting your trust in people<br />
and in things.<br />
O the folly of being careless and trusting in your own<br />
intellect.<br />
With much regret and the wish that you could go back<br />
and undo what has already been done!<br />
Despair and depression now surrounds you,<br />
hope begins to flee away.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">At a moment&#8217;s glance, the warm and welcoming<br />
presence of your Abba Father surrounds you,<br />
bringing comfort and strength to you.<br />
Enlightening you with the understanding<br />
that every painful experience, every<br />
disappointment are really tools to sharpen<br />
and refine you.<br />
To bring you to your rightful place in the Kingdom<br />
of God.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Your most painful experience, if you continue<br />
to endure will bring you to the place<br />
of your greatest triumph.<br />
These experiences will bring you to your place<br />
of destiny.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">May God, your Abba Father impart to you endurance<br />
to hold on in all that you are going through,<br />
you will make it through Life&#8217;s Painful Experiences.</p>
<p>by <span style="color: #000080;"><a style="color: #000080;" title="about Margaret C Mullings" href="https://thoughtsaboutgod.com/authors/about-margaret-c-mullings">Margaret Mullings</a></span><br />
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<h4>Further Reading</h4>
<p>•  <a href="https://thoughtsaboutgod.com/stories_/diane_w">Bloom Where you are Planted</a> – the Diane Willis story<br />
•  <a href="https://thoughtsaboutgod.com/stories_/giesbrecht-depression-story">Depression Story – There is Hope</a> – Merri Ellen Giesbrecht tells her depression story and her story of hope<br />
•  <a href="https://thoughtsaboutgod.com/four-laws/">Salvation Explained</a><br />
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