'Not everyone can be trusted with suffering. Not everyone can endure a fiery ordeal. So the Master scrutinizes the jewels and carefully selects those which can bear the refining, the branches which can stand the knife. It is given for some to preach, for others to work, for others to give, and for still others to suffer. Where do you fit in on that scale? He has selected you to handle that particular, individual set of circumstances in your own life. Not everyone could be trusted with what you're wrestling with, but you have been so trusted.'
Joni Eareckson Tada in Michael S Beates, Disability & The Gospel, p.66.
