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God can turn a negative into a positive.

The worst suffering experienced by a person on earth occurred when the Savior suffered the negative consequences of the human family's collective poor decisions in the Garden of Gethsemane, then again on the cross, followed a withdrawal of the greatest, most comforting gift afforded men on earth, His Heavenly Father's presence.  The greatest good came from His suffering and death.  By Christ's resurrection, we all will live after death.  By His atoning suffering, we all may be saved from the negative consequences of our poor decisions and experience joy now.

Likewise, God can turn all our rock bottoms into sacred ground.

He can do so as we do our part, which is all we can do.  After all we can do, Christ takes what’s left and uses it to make beautiful things which help us do more. Our body eats and drinks.  From our food and drink, our body takes energy.  When our bodies have done with the food and drink all that can be done, we poop.  All that is in the food that we cannot use, we leave behind.  God is nature.  Nature takes our poop and helps grow a fruit-bearing tree.  We then eat that fruit which gives us energy to do more.  God takes over after we do all we can do and converts what's left into our well-being.  This cycle is a temporal manifestation of the spiritual process and power of Grace.  God is an essential part of this equation - when we think we can do it all ourselves, we end up eating our own shit.

Whether bad experiences turned good were ‘God’s will’ or ‘meant to be’ eventually becomes a moot point.  No and Yes may both be correct at some point.  No and Yes are often, respectively, the start and the finish of a completed journey; for completed journeys, they are, in fact, the same point.  In the beginning, if our bad experience was sin, it wasn't God's orchestration; if, in the beginning, our bad experience was unprovoked suffering, it may or may not have been God’s orchestration.  However, the impetuses of all starting points which lead to the same ending are swallowed up in the benefits of that ending.  Indeed, when the end meets the beginning (if ever), then the original, negative meanings become converted into entirely different, positive and beautiful meanings.  The meaning of the end affects the meaning of the beginning as the beginning and end are joined in a completed circle, like a ring being welded.  If they are not joined, the meaning of the start remains negative.  It’s meaning does not become positive until God converts it in this fashion.
  

Our destination happens to be where we began our journey, though the journey is indispensable to our arrival there.  It was always our home.  But, something about us changes while we travel away, then around, and back again.