Part three in a three-part series on acceptance of difficulty. “We must accept and cooperate with the inevitable. If we rail and kick against it and grow bitter, we won’t change the inevitable; but we will change ourselves.” - Dale Carnegie Unfortunately, the Dale Carnegie quote above reflects the way many people go through the …
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On the Adventure of Adversity
This is the fourth post on this topic. “When trials and temptations crowd into your life, don’t resent them…welcome them as friends!” How can such difficulties possibly be for our good? And if they are for our good, does our God keep adding more adversity, more difficulty to our lives? And if He does that, …
On the Adventure of Adversity
“Life is hard. Then, you die.” This is the happy, hopeful message I read on a bumper sticker several years ago. I have never forgotten it, in large part because I was struck at how truthful the message was, and yet how it totally missed “the rest of the story.” Yes, adversity dogs us. Setbacks, …
On the Adventure of Adversity
Nearly three years ago, on a sunny Saturday morning, I had just finished a long weekend run. As I stood in the kitchen drinking a Powerade, my phone rang. Looking at the California number on the ID and calculating the time difference, I knew before answering it that bad news was coming. And I was …
One Pursuit 