other. Her son recently returned from Iraq and got married. As painful as that season of life was for her, she looks back and sees it as a time of incredible spiritual awakening. In Proverbs 20:30, the Bible basically says it sometimes takes a painful experience to make us change our ways. And sometimes it does. Sometimes it takes cancer to awaken us to things of eternal value. Sometimes it takes unemployment to awaken us to a deeper prayer life. Sometimes it takes a broken heart for us to finally let