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September 23, 2009
Not the best day
It's been a fairly depressing day.
My husband is ill in another country, trying to get home.
One of his colleagues had an accident abroad including breaking teeth and glasses and had to be flown home prematurely.
I heard sad and disturbing extended-family news.
I received a business-type letter I'd been waiting for for 16 days as a response to my letter, and it was not worth waiting for. A complete rejection of the things I value. I had been hoping for an apology and a change of direction, and got only "surprise" and the hint that I was just not mature enough to deal with certain rigorous and challenging things.
I splattered a little pesto sauce on my shirt at lunch.
I have a headache.
I'm hoping tomorrow is better.
As an aside, really neither here nor there, but adding to the weirdness, our 6th grade daughter is also abroad (in a different country from her dad) for 5 days and I have no way of hearing any news or reassurance until we see her again Friday night late.
Do you know where the phrase "This too shall pass" came from? It was originally from a Jewish folktale (not in the Bible) involving King Solomon, and then:
The phrase "This too shall pass" [was] made popular by Abraham Lincoln in his 'Address Before the Wisconsin State Agricultural Society, Milwaukee, Wisconsin' on September 30, 1859:
It is said an Eastern monarch once charged his wise men to invent him a sentence, to be ever in view, and which should be true and appropriate in all times and situations. They presented him the words: "And this, too, shall pass away." How much it expresses! How chastening in the hour of pride! How consoling in the depths of affliction!
Interesting. And for something that is in the Bible:
The LORD is close to the brokenhearted and saves those who are crushed in spirit.
(Psalm 34:18)
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Comments
It is always darkest before the dawn...don't know where this came from either but I think it is true! Prayers always help. So many times we/I leave God out when we/I think we/I have it all handled ourselves. But I am always thankful for all of the blessings I do have, which are many, including having you as our daughter! xoxoxo Mom And you, of course, have some two mighty fine brothers!
Posted by: Patricia Taylor | Sep 25, 2009 3:45:13 PM
From http://uk.answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20081030211931AAOOoFh :
The English theologian and historian Thomas Fuller appears to be the first person to commit the notion that 'the darkest hour is just before the dawn' to print. His religious travelogue A Pisgah-Sight Of Palestine And The Confines Thereof, 1650, contains this view:
It is always darkest just before the Day dawneth.
The source of the proverb isn't known. It may be Fuller himself, or he may have been recording a piece of folk wisdom. In 1858, much later than Fuller of course, Samuel Lover attributed the notion to the Irish, in Songs and Ballads:
There is a beautiful saying amongst the Irish peasantry to inspire hope under adverse circumstances:- "Remember," they say, "that the darkest hour of all is the hour before day."
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From http://www.answers.com/topic/the-darkest-hour-is-just-before-the-dawn :
It is always darkest just before the Day dawneth.
[1650 T. Fuller Pisgah Sight ii. xi.]
It is usually darkest before day break. You shall shortly find pardon.
[1760 in J. Wesley Journal (1913) IV. 498]
Ayoob Khan now laid siege to Candahar. ‥As so often happens in the story of England's struggles in India, the darkest hour proved to be that just before the dawn.
[1897 1897 J. McCarthy Hist. our Own Times V. iii.]
Posted by: Katherine | Sep 25, 2009 4:13:08 PM
Sorry about all this. I hope that it has passed by now.
Posted by: Martin LaBar | Sep 30, 2009 2:48:11 PM
oohh..that's so bad...
Posted by: DpenZ | Oct 3, 2009 5:44:48 PM
