Of all of God's attributes, the one we call upon throughout each day is his Mercy. Waking, eating, praying or beginning a task we invoke the phrase "Bismillah Al Rahman Al Raheem,"
As most people do, I turned to Allah and Islam during the hard times of my life. It's a sad fact of life. When times are happy and life is good, no one feels obliged to turn towards his or her Deen (religion).