If we have persons in our environment who cause our inborn passions to flare up in an obvious way, it can be a blessing for us. This disturbance, like the angel’s troubling of the water in the pool of Bethesda (Jn. 5: 2-9), can send us into the pool of God’s mercy for help. Without such trouble we might not have stepped in and been healed.
—Dee Pennock, God’s Path to Sanity