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The interesting thing about bad times is that they open up opportunities for good.  It's a bit like yin and yang and being able to see black at it's very blackest when it's up against the white, but not entirely.  When people share tender stories of feeling loved, it is always from a period when they felt alone.  Without the dark time of being alone, the token of love from another doesn't make nearly as much of an impression.

Sister Snelson shared an experience today.  She's had to put her husband into a care center (they are both elderly).  She really didn't want to have to do it and had fought it and prayed for it not to happen for a long while.  But now that it has happened, she has found an opportunity to not only continue to be a companion to her husband by going to the care center everyday, but also an opportunity to be a cheerful new presence to the other patients in the care center.  She took a situation that she thought would be the absolute worst thing that could happen and turned it around into something good.  She said in essence, "Now that it has happened, how can we make the best of it?"

I think we can look at every "bad" experience as actually an opportunity.  The power is in us ( so the scriptures say ) and we can turn bad things into good.  Not only is this so, but it is in fact true that the bad situations open up plentiful opportunities for good -- opportunities that weren't even there before!  So . . . are bad situations really bad?  Or just an opportunity for more good?