Can God turn it around when it gets bad?

I was kickin back a cold one a few hours ago, A&W Rootbeer of course, and I was chewin on a jalepeno popper with little bit of ranch dressing, when I saw a story that was pretty dramatic on 20/20.

It was about a girl in her 20's who used to work as a model. She was working out in London doing television modeling for programs like QVC. Anyway she gets involved with the wrong guy, he's some psycho jealous control freak. He ends up raping her and threatening her life. Pretty intense, I know. It gets worse. He then gets a friend to ambush her and throw sulfuric acid on her face. It's so bad it TOTALLY disfigures her face eating away the flesh. She described it as her flesh melting away along with her hair. If you think I'm being graphic, just think about how she must have felt.

When they show her before pictures and how she looks now it's like night and day. IT took like 40 surgeries to work on her. She has bad burn wounds on half her face. It took years of surgery, rehab and recovery. So I'm watching this thinking how horrible that someone could even do something like this. Her life is forever changed.

After all that drama and horrifying incident, there was a part of the story that took a turn... for the better. She was pretty involved in a party lifestyle before the whole thing happened. She was usually the center of attention. Everything in her life was about her. But she says in the interview that there was always something missing in her life. A void that she couldn't explain.

She went on to say that when she went through this whole thing her perspective changed. She would never be a model again, she lost her physical beauty and didn't even recognize herself in the mirror, but what she found was so much greater. IT goes beyond the superficial stuff in this world. She had found a relationship with God and the void she had felt previously was no longer there. She lost something GREAT, but she found something SO MUCH GREATER.

As I watched, It reminded me of Romans 8:28, that no matter how bad your situation, or how impossible and unsolvable, or even unfixable, God is able to work all things for the good of those that love Him. Now That is a God I love. That's who God is. He is Great and He is able to work all things together for good, not just some things, but all things, no matter what happens in your life!