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Trials & Smiles

Life brings trials and challenges

and when they come along,

they’ll either get the best of us,

or help to make us strong.

They tell us what we’re made of.

Be it Jello, glue or steel.          

And define us by our actions.

Do we run, fight or kneel?  

To learn and grow while on the earth

is why God put us here.

Face each trial, with courage and a smile

instead of grief and fear.

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