Adversity is never pleasant. However, we often learn lessons from it that could not be learned in any other way. In fact, the average person can handle adversity much better than he or she can handle prosperity. In the early years of his ministry, Chuck Swindoll, the well-known radio pastor of Insight for Living, served a pastorate in Waltham, Massachusetts. A story he once told has its setting in that part of the country where cod fishing is an important industry. From this region, cod are shipped