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Genesis chapter 41 verse 52.

The name of the second he called Ephraim. For God has made me fruitful in the land of my affliction.

What a great sentence.

God has made me fruitful in the land of my affliction.

I just, I think about challenges, affliction, I've walked through pain,

I've walked through in my life. I don't presume that I've walked through near as much pain as a variety of people who are listening to this right now near as much affliction or suffering or trial.

But I just think about as I've walked through trials, I think about when my dad,

best friend in the world, died suddenly of a heart attack and the affliction and the pain and the hurt.

And yet I can totally say Genesis 4152,

like God made that affliction fruitful.

I saw God in ways I'd never seen it before.

Like I experienced the grace of God and the peace of God and the comfort of God and the

and the comfort of God and the love of God in such like physical,

tangible ways.

It was just like God like wrapping his arms of love around me around my family.

I see this I see this not just in my own affliction but as this week I have walked alongside

a family through massive affliction just unexpected tragedy, and yet to see God's grace and

God's mercy in like little ways in the middle of affliction. I think about

being at the hospital recently with another

family going through affliction and just hearing them share testimony

there in the waiting room about how God was so kind in this way and in this small way, in that small way, in this big way over here,

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