Speaking through the pain

From Beyond Blue this morning:

"Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved." --Helen Keller

* "Pain insists upon being attended to. God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks in our consciences, but shouts in our pains. It is his megaphone to rouse a deaf world." --C.S. Lewis

God truly does speak when you're in crisis, or at least that's when you hear him the most. Maybe it's a hallucination, but I think I can hear his will for me.