Ups and Downs

In my thirty-plus years I have experienced enough fear, worry, disappointment and heartache that, now, when people pat me on the shoulder during my hour of trial and wisely say, "There will be joy in the morning," I don't have the urge to horse collar them.  In fact, now, I believe them.  I'd tell a drowning person that myself even if I didn't have a buoy to throw them.  And thank goodness I'm a believer or else there would have been no way I would have been able to sleep last night after the 54-10 drubbing.