My diminished girth, in tailor phraseology, was hardly conceivable even by my own friends, or my respected medical adviser, until I put on my former clothing, over what I now wear, which is a thoroughly convincing proof of the remarkable change.
“Well I was out in the garden moving rocks on the day of the Emmys. I was just playing in the dirt.”
“God's way of answering the Christian's prayer for more patience, experience, hope and love often is to put him into the furnace of affliction.”