"God allows us to experience the low points of life in order to teach us lessons that we could learn in no other way.

You come of the Lord Adam and the Lady Eve," said Aslan. "And that is both honour enough to erect the head of the poorest beggar, and shame enough to bow the shoulders of the greatest emperor on earth. Be content.
~ C. S. Lewis ~












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