HUMMINGBIRD LESSONS
“Into everyone’s life some rain must fall,” so the song goes. How many sermons have I preached on what it means to live rain-lashed lives? How many times have I lectured in painstaking detail that every one of us will not get out of life without experiences of suffering, failure, disability, and death? How often have I argued that every one of us needs personal “disasters” to make us, and to make us into the person God intends us to be? The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy. — Martin Luther King, Jr. I was talking about this subject with environmentalist/gardener Marie Aull one day as we stood at her window watching a spectacular scene outside in her flower bed. At the age of 98, Marie was more observant and open to new discoveries than most people half or a third her…
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