There is always a lesson to be learned and a blessing to be gained from any difficult experience. Invariably we can find both the lesson and the blessing if we will but look for them.
In Shakespeare's play "As You Like It," the banished duke found compensations in his enforced sojourn in the Forest of Arden. Wisely he commented,
Sweet are the uses of adversity;
Which, like the toad, ugly and venomous,
Wears yet a precious jewel in his head.
