Have you ever watched a pot being fired in a kiln? There is such beauty in the glow and light of the firing process. Sure it gets extremely hot, as we know, but afterwards the soft material becomes quite hard, or what's called vitrified and resistant to water leaking through it. In life sometimes it seems like it takes forever and a day to get through a spiritual obstacle. You ask, beg, and plead, for God to hurry up but sometimes the answers don't come quickly. Sometimes, the answer is wait, or soon. You can even know in your heart that God loves you and wants what is best but He still makes you go through a trial to grow you up in a particular area. It could be an addiction, anger issues, finances, car troubles, family, you name it, you seem to be stuck right in it for the long hall. There is no backing down and you just have to face the fire and endure the uncomfortable firing process. But, in my experience, despite the trial, it would seem that the Lord is more interested in my attitude during the trial more than He is interested in ending it. The trial always, eventually, ends. But am I going to be patient and stay in communion with the Father to learn what He wants me to or am I going to pout and get frustrated, and quite possibly miss out on the beauty of the process. Am I going to want to quit the process too early there by exposing me to leaks and weakness in my earthly vessel? Something the Lord is definitely working on in me. Is He working on that in you? Are you letting Him?