Sunday Reflections

“I am mended by my sickness, enriched by my poverty, and strengthened by my weakness…. Thus was it with Manasseh when he was in affliction, ‘He besought the Lord his God.’ Even that king’s iron was more precious to him than his gold; his jail a more happy lodging than his palace; Babylon a better school than Jerusalem. What fools are we, then, to frown upon our afflictions! However crabbed and irksome our afflictions may be, they are our best friends. Never are they for our pleasure; they are for our eternal profit.” —Abraham Wright