January 2, 2004
If our vocabulary did not contain the words
trouble, adversity, calamity and grief,
it could not contain the words,
bravery, patience and self-sacrifice.
Those who know no hardships
will know no hardihood.
Those who face no calamity
will need no courage.
Mysterious though it is,
the human characteristics we admire most
grow in a soil with a strong mixture of trouble.
~Dale Turner~
song playing....Blanket on the Ground