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Robert Fulghum in one of his more recent books wrote, “One of life’s best coping mechanisms is to know the difference between and inconvenience and a problem.  If you break your neck, if you have nothing to eat, if your house in on fire – then you’ve got a problem.  Everything else is an inconvenience.  Life is inconvenient.  Life is lumpy.  A lump in the oatmeal, a lump in the throat and a lump in the breast are not the same kind of lump.  One needs to learn the difference.”

One A Day Spiritual Vitamin, email, Jefferson Avenue church of Christ, Cookeville, TN, October 8, 1998