“In my personal struggle to make a living, I’ve found that true success has very little to do with income or comfort. In fact, it seems to me that inconvenience, hardship and discomfort are my best teachers. It’s as though these horrible, wonderful moments where I realize my own limitations are almost exclusively the only ones that matter. So when I’m brave enough, I chase these awkward moments down. I write songs about them. I put my scattered thoughts online. Heck, I even seek therapy from time to time. Love, dreams, confessions, God, women — these are dreadful, awe-inspiring mysteries to me. They put a funny taste in my mouth. They give me scrapes and scars. And stories.”
-Jon Foreman-
I love this is. I'm not sure if I have said it here before or not, but I truly believe that one curse of the middle class is that they are neither too poor to understand true dependence on the Creator nor are they too wealthy to understand everything that this world has to offer is meaningless. And it is through experience we will find understanding and wisdom.
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