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Confusion About The New Birth – John 3:22 – 3:30

Irish novelist and playwright Samuel Beckett

Irish novelist and playwright Samuel Beckett, received great recognition for his work-but not everyone savored his accomplishments. Beckett’s marriage in fact, was soured by his wife’s jealousy of his growing fame and success as a writer. One day in 1969, his wife Suzanne answered the telephone, listened for a moment, spoke briefly, and hung up. She then turned to Beckett and with a stricken look whispered, “What a catastrophe!” Was it a devastating personal tragedy? No, she had just learned that Beckett had been awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature! (Today in the Word, February, 1991, p. 15).