Tom Facchine – Understanding Hardship

			how we interpret the tests that we find in life is a huge issue. So many people, they despair when
life gets hard when hardship comes to them. And that hardship, you know, can take a lot of different
forms, it can be your health, it can be your relationships, it can be financial, it can be safety,
you know, there's so many things that can happen that make life hard. And how do we interpret that?
And what do we think about our Creator, when that sort of thing happens? There are certain people
who they're liable to interpret it as a punishment and despair and give up hope they think that
Allah must not be happy with me, or I must be doing something wrong, or I did something to deserve
		

			this, or I'm no good, I should just give up or these sorts of things, not realizing that this is the
necessary ingredient to become something better, right? You can't make a cake without putting it
into the oven. Right? It has to it has to go in, it has to touch the heat, and then it changes, it
transforms, it comes out something better, right? I don't know if you've ever tried to eat just like
cake batter by itself. But it's not. I don't like it right? I could get salmonella or something like
that from the eggs. I don't know. Right? So nobody likes hardship. Okay, but we realize that if
you're a decent person who means well, who tries to be good, and then hardship comes, then maybe
		

			this is your big chance, maybe this is your big chance to become something better. Maybe this is a
loss found the other one something better for you. He wants to transform you into someone who's
better than who you aren't. But there's a price to pay, you can't get something for nothing, you're
gonna have to pay the price. If you want to be better. You're here, Allah wants you to be here,
there's a price to get there. And that price is hardship and suffering, maybe not every single time
but often. So most of us we need to reconcile ourselves to patients when it comes to enduring these
hardships and patience takes trust because you have to trust that Allah once good for you. You have
		

			to trust that Allah wants you to be transformed into a better person, and a few of us will be able
to muster something better than patients and that's what Allah contentment That's somebody who has
internalized this whole idea that Allah wants good for you. And so when they see the hardship
strike, they smile, and they're able to recognize it right away for what it is and say that yes,
this is what I've been waiting for. I've been waiting for this to transform