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The story of Joseph in Egypt – Psalms 105:16 – 105:24

Malcolm Muggeridge - Learning through adversity

Contrary to what might be expected, I look back on experiences that at the time seemed especially desolating and painful with particular satisfaction. Indeed, I can say with complete truthfulness that everything I have learned in my 75 years in this world, everything that has truly enhanced and enlightened my experience, has been through adversity and not through happiness. (Malcolm Muggeridge, in Homemade, July, 1990).