All things work together for good
to them that love God, to them
who are the called according
to his purpose. 

     A miller and his family lost all their worldly possessions when a great flood washed away their home and mill. Discouraged and brokenhearted, the miller surveyed the devastation. While doing so, he noticed something glittering in the sun on a nearby bank which had been washed-out by the flood. Upon closer examination, he discovered it was gold. The very floods that had stripped him of his home and business had served to bring him a greater blessing than he had had before. 
     Just as the flood stripped the miller and his family of their earthly possessions enabling them to discover a greater treasure, God sometimes allows “calamity” to strip us of our earthly treasures so that He might bestow a blessing upon us far greater than our losses.