When

When the Lord's answer to your prayer is the one thing you didn't want to happen, the following are still true:

He loves you just as deeply, unconditionally, and lavishly as He always has.
He doesn't make mistakes.
He is filled with empathy for your every tear and for your sense of disappointment.
He has placed His confidence in you that your response to His will---to your circumstances--will bring glory to His name.
He will never leave you nor forsake you.
He is going to bring people into your life that you might encourage them to trust His love and wisdom as they experience similar sorrows and disappointments. And He will do so for the rest of your life.
All things work together for good--even if the good is not revealed to you until you stand in His presence. And hear, "Well done, good and faithful servant."
It will be worth it all to have followed Him.