Survival or Revival?

The last two weeks have been difficult and a little scary. It seemed I either had a headache, had just gotten over a headache or I could feel one coming. Then I started to have them all the time. They got so intense I sometimes couldn't cope with the children or the house. So I went and saw a doctor. The doctor didn't really have any answers, only suggestions and a script. But that afternoon, I started getting dizzy right around the time I needed to pick my children up from school. We only live a few minutes away from our school, but at school pickup time the road is very busy, especially as we have a different school on our road. On my way home I had to cross the main road of our town which can be challenging when it is busy. As I was waiting to cross, the dizzyness got worse.I felt like I was about to black out. There was a line of cars behind me, and I couldn't pull over. I didn't know what to do. Eventually I managed to cross the road, then I pulled over. It was horrible! I waited for a while, not knowing why I was feeling so dizzy. In the end I managed to get home, but the dizziness didn't go away. So when my husband got home from work, I asked him to drive me up to the hospital to get checked out. I was so dizzy, I couldn't even stand at the reception desk to tell them why I was there! It was scary not knowing why I was feeling so sick, not to mention the trauma of nearly fainting in the car!
To make a long story short, the doctor found out I had anemia. That explained the dizziness and headaches. So we got a script for iron tablets and I was relieved it was nothing serious.
When I was up at the hospital, I had a sore chest. I thought that it was just anxiety, as it felt like a scared feeling. I was not happy with myself that I was feeling so anxious, but when I still had it the next day, I realized that it was chest pain--a symptom of anemia! Sometimes the chest pain was so uncomfortable, I thought, I can't wait till I don't feel this pain anymore. I wanted to feel better as quickly as possible, so that is what I prayed for. I also looked up ways to help speed up the process.
But last night I read a devotional before I went to bed. This is what I read.
There are two ways of getting out of a trial. One is to simply try to get rid of the trial, and be thankful when it is over. The other is to recognize the trial as a challenge from God to claim a larger blessing than we have ever had, and to hail it with delight as an opportunity of obtaining a large measure of divine grace. Thus even the adversary becomes an assistant, and the things that seem to be against us turn out to be for the furtherance of our way. Surely, this is to be "more than conquerors through Him who loved us."
I realized that I was trying to get out of this trial as quickly as possible. It was my main concern. It's not wrong to try to help myself and to pray that I will be better quickly. But this trial has a purpose, as all trials do. And it is more important for me to learn what God is trying to teach me, than it is for me to be healthy.
I remembered some words from a different devotion.
Let us be more careful to learn all the lessons in the school of sorrow than we are anxious for the hour of deliverance. There is a "need-be" for every lesson, and when we are ready, our deliverance will surely come, and we shall find that we could not have stood in our place of higher service without the very things that were taught us in the ordeal....
So, although I am getting as much iron as I can get, my prayer has changed to, "Lord, help me to learn what you are trying to teach me through this sickness."
Although I am in 'survival' mode right now, I don't want to only survive. I want to be revived, changed and more dependant on God than before.
Are you going through a trial? A waiting time? A sickness? 
Remember that there is a purpose for this time. Don't miss out what God is trying to teach you because you are in such a hurry for it to be over!