Mission for Redemption

I found a quote I really like by George MacDonald in Elisabeth Elliot's The Shaping of a Christian Family regarding how Christian parents should see their enforcement of rules and principles in the home:

"What if God does not want me to have what I need at this moment?"

"If He does not want you to have something you value, it is to give you instead something He values."

"And if I do not want what He has given me?"

"If you are not willing that God should have His way with you, then, in the name of God, be miserable - until your misery drive you to the arms of the Father."

"Oh, but this is only about a mundane matter. I do trust Him in spiritual matters."

"Everything is an affair of the spirit.  If God has a  way of dealing with you in your life, it is the only way.  Every little thing in which you would have your own way has a mission for your redemption. And He will treat you as a willful little child until you take your Father's way for your own," (pg 136).