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Learning Through Afflictions
Malcolm Muggeridge, in Homemade, July, 1990
Learning Through Afflictions
Malcolm Muggeridge, in Homemade, July, 1990
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 affliction and not through happiness.
