Bolt speaks plainly when suggesting that, after enduring unfamiliar adversity, he has become mentally stronger.
When I emailed her about her characterization of the Clinton-media relationship, Strassel wrote back citing this passage from a June 7 New York Times story about Clinton's clinching the Democratic nomination: "And Mrs. Clinton's very durability -- her tenacity, grit and capacity for enduring and overcoming adversity -- could be exactly what is required to defeat Donald J. Trump".
Yet Gissing struggled on through adversities, enduring the discomfort, loneliness and foul food of London's lodging classes, rising at dawn to go off and tutor for a pittance, forgoing his supper to save up for a six-volume set of Gibbon, and then seeing his self-published debut novel, Workers in the Dawn, appear in 1880 to no fanfare at all.
And maybe learning that Daddy isn't a superhero has laid a solid foundation for greater lessons; in overcoming adversity, in enduring through times of struggle, and in recognising the importance of our family in helping us through our dark nights of the soul.
That narrative — weathering adversity, holding together and enduring — would not have been out of place in the reading, whose title was equally in sync with the times.
"Small businesses react quickly to changing economic conditions and their owners have a can-do attitude, enduring and even creating opportunity out of adversity," they said.
And even when that life is cut horribly short, it still remains a testament to the enduring power of hope, and of triumph over adversity.
The suffering in Christianity is always the struggle to help others overcome adversity--the heroic effort of enduring on behalf of the world.
We've also partnered with Big Brothers Big Sisters of America, which fosters positive and enduring one-on-one mentor relationships with children facing adversity.
