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MASTER THE SKILL OF PERSISTENCE

Recently I was out shopping with my kids at our local mall. We passed one particular store where my son knows there is an elaborate toy train set that he loves to play with. He asked me if he could play with it before we left the mall, and I agreed. A few minutes later he asked again and again and again and again. The entire time we were in the mall he asked incessantly, until finally I stopped prolonging the inevitable and said,“OK, let’s go play with the train.” He was elated.

We must become like children

As we

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