Consider Thomas Edison, whose difficulties were great. When he was nine his teachers sent him home from school with a note to his mother that his mind was "addled."

Later a beating by a train guard caused him to become deaf. This deaf man, considered a moron, averaged one new patent every two weeks during his adult life.

We owe to him the electric light bulb. It may very well be said that he revolutionized industry.

Also, remember Lincoln's road to the White House: he was bankrupt in l83l, defeated for the legislature in l832, bankrupt a second time in l833; he suffered a nervous breakdown in l836 and was defeated in seven other elections.

Finally, in l860, he became a most illustrious president. You too can overcome your handicaps.

-- Richard Wurmbrand, "Jesus To The Communist World", January l978, p. 3.

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This morning I stood in a yellow raincoat

and saw all the glory of God's heaven reflected in a mud puddle.

-- Dorothy Purdy

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To every man there openeth

A way, and ways, and a way

And the High Soul climbs the High Way,

And the Low Soul gropes the Low.

And in between on the misty flats

The rest drift to and fro,

But to every man there openeth

A High Way and A Low.

And every man decideth

The way his soul shall go.

-- John Oxenham