One More For JC

If we are distressed, it is for your comfort and salvation; if we are comforted, it is for your comfort, which produces in you patient endurance of the same sufferings we suffer.  (2 Corinthians 1:6)   Throughout my life I have been greatly blessed.  I’ve been surrounded by more earthly possessions than one man deserves to have.  With that said, my greatest possessions haven’t come on a silver platter.  They’ve arrived only after great sacrifice, severe trial, and years of waiting…and waiting…and waiting.  Take the depressing tale of my wait for a wife.  At an early age, I had formed a strong idea of the type of woman I wanted to marry.  Year after year I waited for someone with those qualities to come my way.  But none did.  Even if they had, I was locked in a decade long struggle with acne (detailed in the “My Achilles Heel” application) that kept me locked away in my bedroom.  My patience was running short, and my frustration with the Lord was nearing its apex.  A frien