Years of Challenges!

Have you ever heard or read this message: "Blessed are those who are given so many challenges by God for He knows that you are strong enough to carry all the problems and most of all he believes that you can do it!" ? Its' such a nice and inspiring message, isn't it? But it's sad to know that only a few believes in this and that most contradict to this message especially those who have problems and thinks that God is not with them. But as I have understand this message I could say that God gives us challenges for us to go back to Him, recognize Him and realize that there is only that one person whom we could ran to always, anytime and anywhere at the saddest part of our lives aside from the people around us. Yes! all of us have veen given tests by God which could either change and loose our faith towards Him or keep and make us strong and even stronger so as in tightening our faith towards Him. Now I will share to you the challeges I and my family underwent called "our years of challenges".
Like all of you I and my family experiences test or challeges too, as if each year there is always that very big problem that will come to our family.
One was when I was still about a month old at that time when the house we rented got burned. And unfortunately we were not able to save any of the things we had at home such as appliances and clothes. But we are still happy because no one in the family was hurt and a lot o our relatives helped us recover rom the tragedy.The next challenge came when I got sick of dengue. At that time I don't have the strong body resistance to fight the disease because I as still young. So, i have to be hospitalized for a couple o days for urther observations. Bags of blood were transplanted to me and some of which came from my father.(so touching!)Thanks God again because I got cured. Another one came when we noticed something wrong on my brother's leg.It has a diferent shape compared to his other leg. At the same time he was also compalining of the pain he feels on it. We worried so much beacuse we thiought it is something complicated. But so far from our expectations, the doctor said thatit was just normal. Just a sign and a part of his growth and being so athletic.And just recently we are facing this challenge regarding my father's helath. We are not yet sure of his real sickness. He has been compalining about his stomachache and abnormal use of the comfort room everyday. We also noticed that he became thin now . Now, he has been undergoing several treatments. And we are again so blessed because we have our neighbors who are helping us in some of the expenses. From the two tests the doctor's were sad of the result and he was advised the to undergo another test. And it was so much of a blessing to know that it is not as complicated as we thought.
We were able to overcome and pass these challenges by praying to God for guidance and asking Him to give each one of us in the family more strength. And as I have noticed that instead of loosing hope we were more hopeful, we became stronger and we became closer to God. Our family's faith towards Him became even more stronger too. That's how God knocks our heart for us to know that He is just there though we can't see Him and that He doesn't give us problems which we can't solve.