Psalm 42:7

All thy waves and thy billows are gone over me.

This place that we are, the place that God has put us, is where we do best. God has given us trials, and continue to do so. Our lives are placed before us, face-to-face, with the deepest trials the world around us can muster. And through this buffeting of conflict we are expected to grow. We grow strong through these storms of our lives like a tree grows where tempests toss it, bending its trunk nearly to the point of breaking. These trees, tested by the tempests, are more firmly rooted than the tree that grows in a valley that never experiences storms that may cause the tree to stress or strain. The same is true with our lives. The best character is developed through hardship.