Fireside Chat: Man's Strength Through Faith

A gem cannot be polished without friction, nor a man without trials. – Seneca

If a man is to improve himself, he must be willing to be assumed imprudent. Every novel feat will result initially in failure. Every trial will show a man how much he can take before he realizes that he didn’t break; he will struggle to carry the weight, increasing his strength in whatever he endeavors to accomplish. Every man eventually reaches the point where he will have to face trials that will transform his worldview forever. Men eventually become slaves to their freedom, a mon avis. A man must realize that, to live a free life, he must bow to the altar of liberty continually, consequences be damned! A man shall be free indeed when his days are not without a care nor his nights without a want and a grief, but rather when these things girdle his life and yet he rises above them naked and unbound. Man has two masters—God and himself. By kneeling before the Lordship of our Creator and reversing his accidie, man will truly understand emancipation.