Coincidence? I think not.

"Deep, unspeakable suffering may well be called a baptism, a regeneration, the initiation into a new state"
-George Eliot

I came across this quote in my devotionals yesterday morning and again in the afternoon as I read chapter 42 in Adam Bede.

Search me, O God, and know my heart;
test me and know my anxious thoughts.
See if there is any offensive way in me,
and lead me in the way everlasting.
-Isaiah 139: 23-24