On Perserverance

J.K. Rowling was a waitress on public assistance who experienced rejection by a dozen publishers before the Harry Potter phenomenon. Michael Jordan was rejected by his high school basketball team. Walt Disney was told he did not have imagination. Thomas Edison was told by his teachers he was “too stupid to learn anything,” that he had to be homeschooled by his mother. Ludwig van Beethoven was completely deaf when he composed four of his greatest works. The manic depressive Vincent Van Gogh said, “Only when I fall do I get up again.”        We all experience failures in various magnitudes at different stages of our lives. The greater challenge is how we deal with it. The Gospel (read Luke 18:1-8) provides us with a key: Perseverance.