In her poem "The Uses of Sorrow", Mary Oliver writes:
Someone I loved once gave me
a box full of darkness.
It took me years to understand
that this, too, was a gift.
When we are hurt, we need plenty of time to truly feel our anger and our grief.
Then, after we have emptied ourselves out of all that pain, sometimes we find space for something new to come in. We are able to see not just what we have endured, but what we have learned.
God does not send us suffering to teach us a lesson. God does give us the ability to take all our experiences, the good and the bad alike, and use them to create a meaningful life. By the grace of God, we are able to find the blessing beyond the curse.
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