Victory

My friend Susan when she was working in a hospital in Chicago, send to me a beautiful bookmark with this poem which was created by an anonymous person. The poem is so beautiful that I even made a slideshow out of it. It helped me a lot during the time I worked and lived in a foreign land. It is called
Victory

“When you are forgotten or neglected or purposely set at nought and you can smile inwardly glorying in the insult or the oversight - That is Victory!

When your good is evil spoken of, when your wishes are crossed, your tastes offended, your advice disregarded, your opinions ridiculed and you take it all in patient loving silence - That is Victory!

When you content with any food and raiment, any climate and society, any solitude, any interruption - That is Victory!

When you can bear with any discord, any irregularity, any unpunctuality, any solitude,any annoyance - That is Victory!

When you stand face to face with waste, folly, extravagance, spiritual insensibility, and endure it all as Jesus endured it - That is Victory!

When you never care to refer to yourself in conversation, or to record your own good works,or to seek after commendation, when you can truly love to be unknown - That is Victory!”