Expectations

I have heard people quote today's verses with unrealistic
expectations: They expected God to give them a "personality
transplant" or immediately change their circumstances.

It never happened that way for me. Instead, He taught me how to
trust His promise--through pain and troubles--that joy would come.
And it did. Always.

And looking back, I realize that was the better way.
  

Hear me, LORD, and have mercy on me. Help me, O LORD." You have
  turned my mourning into joyful dancing. You have taken away my
  clothes of mourning and clothed me with joy, that I might sing
  praises to you and not be silent. O LORD my God, I will give you
  thanks forever! (Psa 30:10-12