Emergencies by Appointment Only

My companion and I were walking by a medical office. And on door it said, "Emergency Visits by Appiontment Only." Think how nice it would be to be able to plan our emergencies and our trials. They have to come, but what if we could set them up like an exercise routine or a payment plan.

Even though I know I don't like to have trials they make us stronger and refine us. It remindes me of one of my favorite quotes by one of my favorite people, C.S. Lewis from Mere Christianity.

"Imagine yourself as a living house. God comes in to rebuild that house. At first, perhaps, you can understand what He is doing. He is getting the drains right and stopping the leaks in the roof and so on; you knew that those jobs needed doing and so you are not surprised. But presently He starts knocking the house about in a way that hurts abominably and does not seem to make any sense. What on earth is He up to? The explanation is that He is building quite a different house from the one you thought of - throwing out a new wing here, putting on an extra floor there, running up towers, making courtyards. You thought you were being made into a decent little cottage: but He is building a palace. He intends to come and live in it Himself."

We may set a program for our own betterment. But God has us on his plan, the Plan of Salvation, so that we can become far more than we wanted ourselves to be. He tells us in the scriptures,"For behold, this is my work and my glory—to bring to pass the immortality and eternal life of man" (Moses 1:39). That is His purpose and ours.