YAY Grace; What? Suffering?

Noticed this juxtaposition in yesterday's lectionary reading:

Therefore, since we have been justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ. Through him we have also obtained access by faith into this grace in which we stand, and we rejoice in hope of the glory of God.

As I look forward to celebrating Easter, this sounds AWESOME!! But the very next line is:

More than that, we rejoice in our sufferings, knowing that suffering produces endurance, and endurance produces character, and character produces hope, and hope does not put us to shame, because God's love has been poured into our hearts through the Holy Spirit who has been given to us.

I get rejoicing in "the hope of the glory of God", but I'm honestly not yet at the point of rejoicing in my sufferings. The place where I might connect to this idea is in the following line:

For while we were still weak, at the right time Christ died for the ungodly.

While I might not rejoice in suffering, I am aware that I am weak and ungodly and that Christ has been and will continue to work in me something I cannot do for myself. And if I can ever get to a place where I can rejoice in sufferings, I think it might start there.

~Passage from Paul's letter to Roman believers, chapter 5