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Text Box: IT’S THE ATTITUDE! Dr. Philip Amerson, president of Garrett-Evangelical Seminary, tells of asking his 88-year-old father how he was. The elderly retired minister answered with one word: “Rejoicing.” What a great attitude! Imagine rejoicing in the blessings and challenges of each day that God gives us. St. Paul suffered numerous hardships including a persistent physical problem he called his “thorn in the flesh,” yet he was a man in whom joy abounded. His letter to the Philippians reveals that he kept rejoicing regardless of his problems. “I will continue to rejoice,” he writes (1:18, NRSV). He asked his friends at Philippi to have a mind to rejoice. “Rejoice in the Lord always; again I will say, Rejoice” (4:4, NRSV). It was his dependence upon Christ that enabled him to find contentment and even joy in any and all circumstances. Therefore he affirmed, “I have learned the secret of being well-fed and of going hungry, of having plenty and of being in need. I can do all things through him who strengthens me” (4:12-13, NRSV). (Reprinted with permission from The Newsletter, August, 2006.)

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