Learning As I Go: Thankful for the trials

There’s a verse in the New Testament that says to give thanks in all things. Sometimes I struggle with this verse. When hardships happen, the last thing on my mind is thankfulness.  When the hits come, yielding to defeat is a natural response for me. This is especially true when I have been working so hard and the bad things simply don’t stop. Sometimes I feel like I’m standing up to an invisible army that wants to see me fail and since they’re invisible, I don’t even know who I’