weak and strong

Anything that forces us

to depend more fully on God

can't be all bad.

"Three times I pleaded with the Lord about this,

that it should leave me. But He said to me,

'My grace is sufficient for you,

for my power is made perfect in weakness.'

For the sake of Christ, then, I am content

with weaknesses, insults, hardships,

persecutions, and calamities.

For when I am weak, then I am strong."

2 Corinthians 12:8, 9a, 10 ESV