It is easier to complain about our crosses than to glory in them.  Paul gloried in the cross.  “God forbid that I should glory, save in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, by whom the world is crucified unto me, and I unto the world” Galatians 6:14 (KJV).  The cross is not simply shaping us into glory; the cross is glory.  Praise God for your cross.  Christ, the Glory of God, is to be found there.  When we are crucified with Christ, God’s glory rests upon us.