Loving Father, who is present with us in joy and affliction, set hope before our eyes when we struggle, that we would have sufficient strength to endure through the vision of your goodness and would be made strong in the remembrance of your promise of love to us, through Jesus our savior, who died that we might live and now reigns forever with you and the Holy Spirit in glory. Amen.
‘And not only that, but we also boast in our afflictions, knowing that affliction produces endurance, and endurance produces character, and character produces hope.’ – Rom. 5:3-4