Frankly, there isn’t anything more destructive, defeating, discouraging, deflating, or depressing than ill-timed, unwise, uncaring, unfeeling, self-centered, self-promoting words. And there isn’t anything more refreshing than timely, encouraging, uplifting, instructive words. On the ash heap outside his hometown, one of the greatest and godliest men of the East sits in pain. His name has already become a nickname for suffering. For one week, his three esteemed friends who traveled from afar sit with
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