Must life be considered a failure
to someone compelled to stand still,
forced into inaction and required to watch
the great roaring tides of life from shore? 
No – victory is then to be won by standing still and quietly waiting.
Yet this is a thousand times harder to do than in the past, when you rushed headlong into the busyness of life. It requires much more courage to stand and wait and still not lose heart or lose hope,
to submit to the will of God, to give opportunities for work and leave honors to others, and to be quiet, confident, and rejoicing while the busy multitude goes happily along their way. The greatest life is, “after you have done everything, to stand.”
J.R.Miller (1840-1912)
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