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Don't waste sufferings
NEVER! NEVER! NEVER! NEVER! NEVER! GIVE UP! These were the words passionately spoken by Sir Winston Churchill to the English Parliament during one of the darkest hours for England during World Was II. I thought about this period in history as I listened to a recent sermon by my pastor. I always take pad and pen to church. My pastor usually says something in his remarks that lights a spark of emotion that gives birth to an idea for my weekly column in The Citizen.
This particular Sunday the preacher shared with us that some of us fall into a pit. Whether the fault lies within us or is a result of outside influences beyond our control; it makes no difference. We are still in a pit. How we respond to life in the pits is decided by us. Horatio G. Spafford was a wealthy businessman in Chicago in the 1800s. His fortune was made in real estate. Mr. Spafford and his wife had recently lost a son, who was only two years of age, to an illness. Then in the Great Chicago Fire of 1871 that destroyed most of the city, Mr. Spafford lost his entire business. In order to try to recover from the trauma of these losses, Mr. Spafford bought fares for him, his wife, and his four daughters for a trip to Europe on an ocean liner. Mr. Spafford thought that this trip would ease some of the pain that his family was enduring from these overwhelming adversities.
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