I have been reminded that when my children were little, one morning one of them scribbled permanent gold marker over my beautiful Indonesian coffee table and I couldn't clean it off. In the afternoon another proceeded to play with playdough on the same table, forgetting to put a plastic sheet underneath. Whilst picking up the playdough by dabbing it into one ball, I discovered the properties of the playdough were perfect for cleaning off the gold markings! In my early Christian walk that taught me the meaning of the verse: "We know that all things work for good for those who love God, who are called according to His purpose" (Romans 8:28). God not only converts a negative circumstance into something good, He sometimes engineers seemingly negative circumstances and ones we consider not a good idea, into what He knows is best for us.
