There’s an old tao saying which goes something like this -

     “Receiving fortune is receiving a trial
            Receiving misfortune is receiving grace.”

I was thinking this morning when the piece of sand gets inside the oyster – it is a real irritant but the oyster wisely sets about his business and… Voila! A few months later we have a pearl of great value.

When a foreign bacteria (lactobacillus acidophilus) is added to milk the result is a substance with wonderful therapeutic properties .

In my own life the situations which were the most difficult or painful seem always to have given me the most reward