"My pain, failure, difficulty, alienation and isolation motivated me to not only seek solace and strength from God, but to open my heart to His mind, ways, desires and intentions as well. The Word of God became open to me in a way that it never had."

Saw this in an email from Identity Network and was encouraged at it's confirmation of a recent meditation on how isolation can turn out to be a part of a purification process similar to a technique common in microbiology etc.