Nevertheless

"Nevertheless afterward" (Hebrews 12:11)

"There is a legend that tells of a German baron who at his castle on the Rhine, stretched wires from tower to tower, that the winds might convert them into an aeolian harp. And the soft breezes played about the castle, but no music was born.

But one night there arose a great tempest, and the hill and castle were smitten by the fury of the mighty winds. The baron went to the threshold to look out upon the terror of the storm, and the aeolian harp was filling the air with strains that rang out even above the clamor of the tempest. It needed the tempest to bring out the music!

And have we not known men whose lives have not given out any entrancing music in the day of the calm prosperity, but who, when the tempest drove against them have astonished their fellows by the power and strength of their music?

You can always count on God to make the "afterward" of difficulties, if rightly overcome, a thousand times richer and fairer than the forward. "No chastening... seemeth joyous...nevertheless afterward..." - Taken from Streams in the Desert by L.B. Cowman from November 29th...

Realizing my true song comes forth in a true storm.
And I thank God for it and will continue to praise Him..