otherwise productive day. Suffering has the power to expose what you have been trusting all along. If you lose your hope when your physical body fails, maybe your hope wasn’t really in your Savior after all. It was humbling to confess that what I thought was faith was actually self-reliance. But God wasn’t done with me yet. Contrary to what I expected and would have planned, I wasn’t done with surgery or the hospital stays and the suspended life that would follow. Almost four months later, with a body