In her book Tramp for the Lord, Corrie ten Boom told of the time she visited a hospital where polio patients were being treated. The doctor in charge asked if she would like to speak to the patients. The sight of the suffering deeply touched her. “No, I think am unable to talk. I just want to go off somewhere and cry.” A moment later she changed her mind and ended up beside the bed of a man who could barely breathe. She told him about Jesus and how God had allowed his Son to suffer for each of us. Corrie writes: “I finished speaking and from my bag I took a small, embroidery. On one side was stitched a beautiful crown. The other side was quite mixed up. ‘When I see you on this bed,’ I said, ‘not speaking, not moving, I think of this embroidery. ‘Your life is like this. She how dark it is. She how the threads are knotted and tangled, mixed up. But when you turn it around then you can see that God is actually weaving a crown for your life. God has a plan for your life and He is working it out in beauty.” The man picked up a pencil and wrote in shaky handwriting: “Thank God I am seeing the beautiful side. What a miracle!” Most of the time, we cannot see the other side. But faith in God's Word assures us there is another side, and that even in our loss and pain, God is at work for our good and His glory. “Humble yourselves, therefore, under God's mighty hand, that he may lift you up. Cast all your anxiety on him because he cares for you.” 1 Peter 5: 6-7