Short spoken monologue (YouTube) by Jeffrey Jaime that addresses listeners experiencing hardship (job loss, illness, bereavement, broken relationships). The speaker urges acceptance of suffering as a process of spiritual breaking/refinement, instructing listeners to thank God for breaking them and to welcome ego-death, using metaphors like gold in fire and diamond under pressure.
Are you being broken by God at some point in your life right now? Have you lost your job? Have you hurt yourself? Have you caught an illness? Have you experienced a death in your family? A broken relationship? And say to God, thank you. Thank you for breaking me. Keep breaking me and keep breaking me. Thank you for slaying my ego. Thank you for refining me. Like gold in a fire Like a diamond under pressure.
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