Friend who went through the Great Depression

Billy Graham tells of a friend who went through the Great Depression, losing a job, a fortune, a wife, and a home.  He was a believer in Jesus Christ, and he tenaciously held to his faith even though he was naturally depressed and cast down by circumstances.  One day in the midst of his depression he stopped to watch some men doing stonework on a huge church in the city.  One was busy chiseling a triangular piece of stone.  "What are you going to do with that?"  he asked.  The workman stopped and pointed to a little opening near the top of the spire.  "See that little opening up there near the top?" he said.  "Well, I'm shaping this down here so that it will fit up there."  The friend said that tears filled his eyes as he walked away from the workman.  For it seemed that God had spoken to him personally to say that he was shaping him for heaven by the ordeal through which he was passing.

Trials; Temptations; Difficulty