the journey transforms you

This is a lovely and thoughtful blog entry from Jamie Rohrbaugh "God is Restoring You BETTER than You were Before". Excerpt:

     "The losses you felt were brutal and beyond your wildest imagination... according to the Biblical definition of the word “restore,” things actually become better than they ever were before... I am healing your life, but I am actually also redesigning your reality based on the fact that you won the battle. The enemy sent his most sinister forces against you, but you abode in Me and in My Word, and the enemy did not succeed. I realize that you thought the enemy did succeed, and it’s true that he stole some things from you [but] I had something so much better for you... The journey you’ve been on has been steep and rocky, but you have been building muscles of faith. Now, you are so much different than you were before... I am a God of clarity, order, and rest. If you feel harried, it is not from Me. Go back to the place of rest and recalibrate your actions and your thinking."