One of the values of having a closely knitted group connected on email is you get some of the best reads sent to your inbox. MY shared this with us in one of the latest emails this week on Condoleeza Rice (excerpt):
“As she grieved her father’s death, Rice says she learned three important truths that changed her life.
“First, I [learned] that it is a privilege to struggle,” she says. “Only through struggle do we realize the depth of our resilience and understand that the hardest of blows can be survived.
“There’s a second truth about struggle: It can conquer you, or you can conquer it. Part of not allowing struggle to overcome our faith is attained by letting go of our own expectations and plans.
“There is a third truth in the privilege of struggle. You can find personal fulfillment and peace in times of pain and heartache. When God’s power is full-strength because we are weak, that enables the Spirit of the Lord to rest on us. When we are weak, contemptible,
persecuted, frustrated and painfully grieving because we are weak, He is strong.”
- LESLIE MONTGOMERY is a freelance writer based in Lake Norden, South Dakota, and the author of The Faith of Condoleezza Rice (Crossway Books), which released in March.
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