Trials Don't Make Us Great; It's How We Respond to Them

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As I write, the poorest country of the Western Hemisphere is digging itself out from under the rubble of a magnitude-7.0 earthquake. The North American plate and the Caribbean tectonic fault crashed and pulled, bringing down both house and man and even a nation. There are many lands of poverty, corruption and violence where children die from diseases Americans have forgotten and parents have never seen. There are hungry adults, parentless children, and there is oppression of all kinds. But Haiti was Hades before the quake; now it is pure hell.

Ah, but trials make us strong, they say. Right? No, problems do not. I am here to tell you that is a fallacy. Troubles themselves do not make us great. Instead it is how we think, act and feel in the face of tribulations that makes us a Lincoln or a Smith, an Esther or a Keller.

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Trials Don't Make Us Great; It's How We Respond to Them

Good men die young. Righteous mothers do not survive childbirth; virtuous women are barren; hard-working fathers can't provide for their families. Trials are no...

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