Using Our Hardships as Ministry Tools

This is Shelli Littleton.  I'd like to encourage everyone to go to Gracie Rosenberger's website, Standingwithhope.com.  She has lived a novel life; her ministry in Ghana barely scratches the surface in her ministry to others through her hardship.  I certainly can't hold a candle to her.  Her story definitely put a fire under my soul.  I've been through some hardships.  One in particular - our youngest daughter had cancer as a baby.  The Lord opened an opportunity for me this last year to share our story with a large women's group in San Angelo, Texas.  He definitely took me out of my comfort zone.  After speaking to the group, there were several women who came up to me with tear-streaked faces saying the Lord had spoken to them through me that day.  I could have leapt off the face of the earth in joy.  Knowing our story touched someone else's life for good made all the heartache and suffering of that hardship worthwhile.  That's the plan.  God's plan is good ... so good.