Lessons Learned from those who have gone before us...
Edward
Livingston Trudeau (1848 – 1915)
A doctor who contracted tuberculosis while
treating his dying brother. Dr. Trudeau was the first to pioneer the concept of
sanitarium care in America and he lived with tuberculosis for over 40 years
before finally dying of the disease. In the closing pages of is memoir, when he
knew he had only a few weeks to live, he wrote:
"The struggle with tuberculosis
has brought me experiences and left me recollections which I never could have
known otherwise, and I would not exchange it for all the wealth of the Indies!
While struggling to save others, it has enabled me to make the best friends a
man ever had… I have learned that the conquest of Fate is not by struggling
against it, but by acquiescence, that it is often through men that we come to
know God; that spiritual courage is of a higher type than physical courage,
and that it takes a higher type of courage to fight a losing rather than a wining fight.”
For me, this will take time to ponder all he has learned.
The thing that sticks out to me though is his focus on others rather than himself. - "while struggling to save others..."
1 John 4:12
No one has seen God at any time. If we love one another, God abides in us, and His love has been perfected in us.NKJV
