It has taken a long time to begin to see suffering as a blessing. The same Master Designer created both night and day. God, who sees every detail of our unformed bodies before we were born, who knows every one of our minutes before one of them occurs, is not surprised by our pain. He is not taken-aback, has everything under control, and loves us still. You see, the struggle is the plan. It is in the not seeing, the not understanding, that we reach out in the dark. Shuffling our feet across unknown terrain, arms outstretched and hearts beating fast, it is in pitch-blackness we search for wisdom, and grow."