Pain can work to strengthen us can't it? Like silver and gold, fire removes the dross so that only the pure metal is left.  That's how pain is, it removes the dross from our lives to leave the pure.  Now I don't like pain, never have, but there are times I have had to endure it.  Like when I was young and received correction for doing something wrong, (can you identify?!)  It was painful yes, but it taught me not to repeat the offense.   Or when I was in labor with my children, hmmm, yes, what can I say?  After the labor I had a beautiful baby to love.  Pain yes, but the joy afterwards was immeasurable.  The same goes with life, there may be pain, but it is only refining us, preparing us to be better than we were.  The Word says in Psalms that Weeping endurath for the night, but Joy cometh in the morning! Amen.  So the next time you are in pain, remember that you are being purified - like a precious metal.  It's God's way of removing the dross out of your life.  By the way, dross is defined as waste or foreign matter, impurity - something that is base, trivial or enferior.  The scum that forms on the surface of molten metal.  And who needs scum in their life?