If God asked your permission before a blessing or hardship, how wouldyou answer? Most would say yes to the blessing and no to thehardship, especially if it involved our children. Thankfully, God does notask; rather, he gives us the gift of hindsightto look back and say yes tothe hardship that made us who we are.

Struggle produces more strengths than weaknesses, more couragethan fear, and more resolve than complacency.

Bookstores are filled with incredible stories of courage and overcominginsurmountable odds. No one wants to read about a person who wasborn, went to school, made average grades, got an average job, had anaverage family and died an average death concluding with an averagefuneral. We probably know lots of people like that, but there are no booksabout them. No, we want the stories of the average overcomers. Wewant to hear about the men, women, and families, just like ours, whohave faced their own Goliath and won, because we want to believe, wetoo can muster the umph to make it through our own difficulties.

I Would Have Said Yes

chronicles an average family with above averagedetermination, who are blessed by an incomprehensible andawesome God to see extraordinary miraclesone day at a time.