"It is, as in the voyage of life, that each care and hardship is a very Mentor of living. Our minds would only vegetate if all life were like a straight canal, and we in a boat being towed along it. The afflictions that agitate the soul are as its shallows, rocks, and whirlpools, and the bark that has not been tossed on billows knows not half the sweetness of the harbor at rest."
This is a quote by Dad sent me from "A Thousand Miles in the Rob Roy Canoe" a travelogue by a nineteenth century barrister named John MacGregor.
Sometimes I would rather avoid the hardship and just "vegetate", but I know that the Lord has promised to bring my soul to the "sweetness of the harbor at rest" eventually.
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