When walking through trial after trial, those stormy times when life presses in, threatening to choke and extinguish all happiness, it is easy to back away, curl up, and grow discouraged, isn’t it?
Often life is quite difficult to bear.
As a child, I remember reading Alexander, and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day by Judith Viorst. The main character is a little boy who experiences one disappointment after another, small events that culminate in a crummy twenty-four-hour period.
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Alexander was a hero of mine as a adult.
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