Joyce Landorf sets forth the premise that progress and real growth can be the experience of anyone, but we must make the choice. Either we respond to those forces that produce growth and blossom, or we turn the opposite way, shrivel up, and die. The dilemmas can be devastating, or we can take the pain, the suffering, the disciplining, the waiting-whatever it it is that comes our way-and allow God to produce fruit and stimulate growth in our lives. Joyce takes the reader behind the scenes in her own growing experiences and shares the precious tangible lessons taught her by God: "While we wait with pain, we grow. Pain is an experience that is never wasted. Every pain is used by God and that makes sense, for we begin to understand that we are growing in communion with others, compassion for others, and really sharing with Christ. And, to our continued surprise, our blessings are growing too and we are like a field that is ripe and ready for the harvest." - from Amzon