by Ricky Doc Sauceda
Sirach 2:4-5
Accept whatever happens to you;
in periods of humiliation be patient.
For in fire gold is tested,
and the chosen, in the crucible of humiliation.
On January 20, 2010...the birthday of my eldest sister...the "would have been" 27th wedding anniversary to my ex-wife...and the day I was "let go" by my former employer...I shared a verse from Sirach with a co-worker that escorted me to my car with my belongings in a box. I shared it with her to express that I would be strong in faith and would manage to find a new way to live. I had already suffered from separation and divorce, estrangement from my two older children and would now cope with a huge loss of income.
In all of this I relied on God to carry me. That is how I got through the mire. This is true.