Life with trials hard may press me;
Heaven will bring me sweeter rest.

Every disability conceals a vocation, if only we can find it, which will 'turn the necessity to glorious gain.

Memories of the past year came tumbling down on me. The recent changes and reverses were almost overwhelming. I was learning that life flowed like a river. When the run-off was normal, the water ran smoothly. But if there came a downpour, it gushed. In the likeness to a flooding river, life events were caught up in the course of the devouring stream.

We are all children coming inside from recess with varying degrees of dirt on us.

To live greatly, we must develop the capacity to face trouble with courage, disappointment with cheerfulness, and triumph with humility.

Our most significant opportunities will be found in times of greatest difficulty.