The Lord has brought me thus far, and though my life seems quite ordinary, I believe one thing God has shaped me more through these past years is how to think. As we learned in ET2 (apologetics), we are to love the Lord not just with all our hearts, but also with all of our mind.
I am so glad that through struggles, He has given me a mind to understand His ways and softened my heart. People come and go in our lives, we go in and out of people's lives. I very much disliked that at first. Sometimes I still whine about that. We seek to love and be loved. Yet through this the Lord has revealed more of His faithfulness. Although people do come and go, God remains. We still are able to love and be loved, but this is from God and not from people. God uses different people at different times to reveal Himself. Who is greater?