" Pain can be a professor theology.
Pain can be a marriage counselor.
Pain can be a life coach.
Nothing gets our full attention like pain. It breaks down false idols and purifies false motives. It reveals where we need to heal, where we need to grow. It refocuses priorities like nothing else. And pain ins part and parcel of God’s sanctification process in our lives. "

― Mark Batterson , Whisper: How to Hear the Voice of God