Troubled? Stressful? Keep Calm and Carry On!

Recently I came across this article by Michael Duduit who talked about a little book titled “Keep Calm and Carry On”. Over two millions copies of the book and posters were printed by the British government during World War II. It was intended to be used to encourage the British in the event of Germany invasion to Britain. Since this never happened, most of the posters were destroyed at the end of the war in 1945 and never officially seen by the public. About 10 years ago, one was discovered in a second-hand United Kingdom bookstore and was hung on a wall of the shop, where it attracted interest from customers. The store's owners began reproducing copies for their customers since the copyright on the poster had expired.

I did not have any chance to read the book yet, but Duduit quoted some “common sense wisdom” from the book that inspire readers to "keep calm and carry on"” which I want to share with you:

"There is no education like adversity." (Benjamin Disraeli)

"It isn't so much that hard times are coming; the change observed is mostly soft times going." (Groucho Marx)

"The darkest hour in any man's life is when he sits down to plan how to get money without earning it." (Horace Greeley)

"Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm." (Winston Churchill)

"Worry often gives a small thing a big shadow." (Swedish proverb)

"My life has been filled with terrible misfortune, most of which never happened." (Michel de Montaigne)

"The greatest mistake a man can ever make is to be afraid of making one." (Elbert Hubbard)

"Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap, but by the seeds that you plant." (Robert Louis Stevenson)

"I am an optimist. It doesn't seem too much use being anything else." (Winston Churchill)

For me, my inspiration and greatest comfort come from Apostle Paul’s reminder:

In every way having been troubled, but not having been hemmed in; having been perplexed, but not utterly at a loss;

Having been persecuted, but not having been forsaken; having been thrown down, but not having been destroyed;

Always bearing about the dying of the Lord Jesus in the body, so that the life of Jesus also might be revealed in our body. (2Co 4:8 -10)