In a speech on the moral authority of U.S. presidents, historian David Abshire said, “How many of our presidents in recent times have had personal crises because they never put away childish things, never grew out of their hang-ups, never learned from mistakes, never quite put the nation ahead of themselves?”1 The words (perhaps reflecting those of the apostle Paul) “putting away childish things” grabbed my attention, because they speak to my point. Resilient people put away childish things. And that’s what Joseph did.
