Hardship Can Be the Best Friend of Our Souls

Hardship Can Be the Best Friend of Our Souls

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn was a Russian soldier who criticized Stalin and was sent to Soviet prison camps. He survived and he wrote books. Eventually he became a Nobel Prize laureate. In one of his books, he famously wrote, “Bless you prison, bless you for being in my life. For there, lying upon the rotting prison straw, I came to realize that the object of life is not prosperity as we are made to believe, but the maturity of the human soul.” Reread that and think about it.Imagine if the majority of people in the world thought this way. It would certainly…