SUFFERING’S SIGNAL
The story is told of a man who was washed ashore on an uninhabited island and in the days that followed, he painstakingly constructed a hut with the few things that he salvaged from the wreck and from whatever he could find on the island. That little hut was all that he really had. It kept him sheltered from the harsh elements, and he could at least put his possessions some place. One day after returning from a lengthy search for food, he was terrified to find the hut engulfed in flames. The loss devastated him and he spent that night asleep on the beach. The next morning when he woke up, to his surprise there was a ship anchored off the island and there was a boat rowing toward him. When the men arrived there on the island with him, they said, “we saw your smoke signal and came to rescue you.” What he thought was his destruction turned out to…
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