After three years in a Japanese prisoner of war camp, a British officer who found Christ in that camp said something that only a follower of Christ could say. “Well,” he said, “it’s all over. I wouldn’t have missed it for anything. True, it was rough. But I have learned an awful lot that I couldn’t have learned at university or anywhere else. For one, I’ve learned about the things of life that are real; and for another, I’ve learned that it is great to be alive.” ... Suffering no longer locked us up in the prison house of self-pity, but brought us into what Albert Schweitzer called the
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