Severely Blessed

By the mercy of God, I have been very blessed in my life. I take so many of those blessings for granted and often want more than what I have instead of simply being content. When that happens, I become severely blessed. "Severe blessings" are those that don't work out according to my desires. They are "severe" because they are often painful, but they are blessings because God uses them to work in my life and teach me some valuable lessons. I may not get what I want or when I do get what I want, it's not as great as I originally thought. Nevertheless, the pain is worth the lessons from these experiences. So while it may sound like an oxymoron, it never fails to make me marvel at how God can take even our hurts and angers and turn them into something beautiful simply for the sake of bringing us closer to Him.