How I see

I heard someone talk about the hard things in life as a "stroke of death".  As I began to think about that phrase I wondered if I looked at it differently could it really be life?  Doesn't it say in John 15:2 that the cutting off of branches that don't bear fruit is a must.  Branches that are dead on the vine don't bear fruit.  When the one tending the vines lops off a branch at that moment it is a "stroke of death".  Yet, is it because "new life" is truly in mind.  I need to see differently.   I want to take the "stroke of death" moments and see the "new life" my Savior has in mind.  Change how I see.