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 ...