Tag: Hope
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Did He Waste 27 Years?
Before Nelson Mandela helped end apartheid and became the first democratically elected in South Africa, he was sentenced to life imprisonment for his political involvement. His bed in prison was a straw mat. The prison guard physically and verbally harassed him. As a prisoner, he was required to do hard labor and break rocks into…
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One Starfish At a Time
One morning an old man walked along the beach. A big storm had just passed. As far as the eye could see, the shore was littered with starfish. From a distance, the man noticed something unusual. A woman picked up a starfish, threw it back into the sea, and repeated with the next one. He…