The world admires strength and hides weakness. The Bible turns that upside down. God told Paul, "My power is made perfect in weakness" ( 2 Corinthians 12:9 ), and Paul learned to say, "When I am weak, then I am strong." These three stories about strength in weakness, retold in our own words, come from a piece of rope, a baseball star in a wheelchair and a civil rights leader at the end of his rope one night in Montgomery. Stories in this collection: Why a Rope Is Stronger Than Its Strands Roy Campanella and the Prayer on the Hospital Wall Martin Luther King's Midnight Prayer at the Kitchen Table ──────── ✝ ──────── Why a Rope Is Stronger Than Its Strands Did you know that a rope is stronger than the combined strength of all the strands that make it up? How can that be? The answer is surprisingly simple. Every individual strand of fibre has weak spots along its length, points where it is likely to break. On its own, a strand fails at its weakest point. ...
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