A GREAT RESTART

"Doubts and difficulties surround us just to move us and confirm our faith. We are tested as it were." – Sri Sai Sacharitra, Ch. XXIX.

 

Thomas Edison lost two million dollars' worth of equipment and the record of many years' work, when his laboratories were gutted by fire, in 1914.

 

Edison's son, Charles, found his father standing near the fire, his white hair blown with the winter wind. His heart ached for his aged father.

 

Edison saw Charles, "Where's your mother?" he shouted. Bring her here, she will never see anything like this again as long as she lives."

 

The next morning, walking among the ashes of his hopes and dreams, the 67-year-old Edison said, "There is great value in disaster. All our mistakes are burnt up. Thank God we can start anew!"

 

There spoke a man with the friendly attitude towards life and its happenings.