This word is submitted by Deb Okereke (healingfire@shaw.ca)

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           Disappointments into Destiny

Though they were genuine, don't focus on the disappointments. Instead 
focus on how each one of them had seeds of destiny within and something 
had to die so that new life could come forth. The tears you shed were not 
in vain for they cleansed your heart of defilement and they touched My 
heart. It wasn't My intention to cause you pain dear one, but to prepare 
you for a great work. Through the disappointments you encountered I have 
been fashioning you and molding you into My image. 

Surely you have learned much of My ways, surely you have been afforded 
opportunities to count the cost, for the cost to you personally has been 
very great. But yet through it all you have continued to choose Me, 
continued to walk in My footsteps, even when the path has been darkened to 
your understanding or filled with shadows. You have done well and I am 
proud of you. 

Now focus not on what you have lost but what you have gained -- not on 
those things and people which have been taken but upon those that remain. 
Not on opportunities squandered but on those which lie ahead. Nurture the 
seeds of destiny I have placed in you. Let Me breathe life into them. 
They shall come forth at their appointed time. Examine the disappointments 
only to discern the seeds of destiny contained within. Let Me brood over 
them and impart life to them for the furtherance of My Kingdom.