(For Sunday July 13) Yep.  I'm grateful for difficult people...in the big picture of life.  I kind of lose the gratefulness for them in the day-to-day of life. But I'm working on that.  :)  I'm grateful for difficult people because in having to interact with them I have found I can learn many things.  I can learn to have a broader perspective, grace, and patience. I usually am reminded through difficult people how unattractive narcissism is.  I am really certain God uses difficult people in my life as sandpaper, rubbing off all of my  narcissism!  And in the day-to-day when I'm sighing deeply over some difficult person in my life God likes to remind me that I am the difficult person in someone's life, just to keep me grounded in reality.  :) Have you ever been grateful for that difficult person in your life?