Dave and Bethlie finish up the second part of this Overcoming Challenging Events series.

3. Keep growing

1. Only God can bring beauty out of ashes
   1. Satan wants to increase the ash heap
   2. God wants to grow beauty from the ash heap
2. He does it as we grow in Him
   1. Stay in the Word
      1. Read it daily
      2. Listen to it read aloud
         1. You Version
         2. Blue letter bible
         3. Etc
   2. Pray a lot
   3. Keep trusting God
   4. Remind yourself of truth
      1. Sin is bad
      2. Sin is the reason for all the wrong in the world
      3. God is good
         1. God is continually working to enable us to overcome the wrong

4. Be prepared for people

1. When they forget
2. When they say the wrong thing
3. When they let you down