Afflictions are but as a dark entry into our Father's house.

Afflictions are but as a dark entry into our Father's house.

[The first floor - the original ranch house - was dark and contained the entry, sitting room, and bedrooms (a master suite had been carved from the old kitchen and bath), while the airy top floor housed a large living room, kitchen, dining room, studio, and loft, and it opened onto a rear deck. It was a design layer cake that wasn't all that appetizing.] When you walked in on the ground floor, you had no idea what was upstairs, ... It was two totally different houses.

There is a broken window but we don't believe that was used as a means of entry into the house.

And the covert for the sabbath that they had built in the house, and the king's entry without, turned he from the house of the LORD for the king of Assyria.

Of all afflictions, the worst is self-contempt.