What's So Good About Tough Times? / Wheeler, Joe L (Ed) / (HB/2001-2001/B+/USED)

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Discover the good in your bad times!
No one wants to endure heartache or suffering. No one would voluntarily choose to lose a job or a home, to experience the breakdown of a cherished relationship, to vicaroiusly suffer through a child's anguish and heartbreak, to lose one's health. Yet is often through difficult circumstances such as these that God stretches us--and even blesses us--the most.
Sometimes strength only comes through struggle.
Ironically, our most significant growth occurs not during times of good fortune but during periods of trauma. God does not want all our doors to be open. His compassionate intention is that we will suffer disappointment, frustration, and heartbreak--for it is in the fires of such crucibles that our characters are forged.
Witness how men and women like you allowed their character to be deepened as they faced and overcame a variety of difficulties--and find inspiration that will help you do the same--in this collection of twenty stirring stories that speak to the timeless question, What's So Good About Tough Times?

Introduction: God's Great Gift--Tough Times

PART I: HEARTACHE

Faith: Alone, Yet Not Alone Am I -- Henry Melchior Muhlenberg (with Regina Leininger and Maria Le Roy)
Devotion: The Death Disk -- Mark Twain
Long-Suffering: Two Candles for St. Anthony -- Arthur Milward
Perseverance: Quality -- John Galsworthy
Integrity: A Good Name or Great Riches -- Frank Hampton
Obedience: The Circle in the Fire -- Leonard C. Lee

PART II: HOPE

Service: The Missing Word -- G. E. Wallace
Compassion: The Red Geranium -- Viola M. Payne
Honor: Hilda's Trousseau -- Florence Crannell Means
Resourcefulness: 158 Spruce Street -- Author Unknown
Self-Reliance: Along Came Cynthia -- Harriet Lummis Smith
Optimism: My Son--Handicapped -- Author Unknown
Acceptance: Her Inside Face -- Beth Bradford Gilchrist
Self-Denial: The Dissolving of a Partnership -- Abbie Farwell Brown

PART III: HEALING

Pliability: A Message from the Sea -- Arthur Gordon
Vision: The Making of Mike -- Irving Bacheller
Insight: The Wall of Silence -- Shirley Barksdale
Trust: The Ragged Cloak -- Margaret E. Sangster Jr.
Principle: The Firing of Donald Capen -- Alice Louise Lee
Assurance: October Song -- Joseph Leininger Wheeler

Acknowledgments

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