"Imagine yourself a living house. [You ask God to make some repairs.] At first...He is getting the drains right and stopping the leaks in the roof and so on...But presently He starts knocking the house about in a way that hurts abominably and does not seem to make sense. What on earth is He up to? The explanation is that He is building quite a different house from the one you thought of...You thought you were going to be made into a decent little cottage: but He is building a palace." -Mere Christianity
