Keeping the faith

A few years ago, there was a severe earthquake in Turkey.  Many buildings and homes were leveled.  Among the thousands of casualties, a 6-year-old boy named Armand was missing.  His father, knowing his son was at school the time the earthquake hit, raced to the collapsed structure.  Climbing to the top of the pile, Armand's father began to pull off the shattered mud bricks.  The sharp corners of the bricks sliced up his hands as he carried them down the pile and tossed them aside.  He continued to offload the bricks.  Every time people would try to stop him and tell him it's useless, he'd reply: "Join me or leave me alone!  Join me or leave me alone!"  Well after forty-seven hours of consecutive digging he heard a voice: "Daddy, is that you?"  Armand's father exploded with joy as he found his son along with his classmates huddled together under collapsed walls.  Armand kept telling his school companions: "I told you my daddy would come!  I told you my daddy would come!"  And indeed he came. What a truly inspiring account  of a father's love.
After reading this incredible story of perseverance and triumph, I began to think of the power of faith. How important it is to keep the faith when it seems as if the outcome will be bleak at best. Armand's father continued to dig through rubble with cut hands for forty seven continuous hours to save his son. I hope none of us ever have to experience this type of terror but we all can show this same type of relentless love for our children. We all can show them love by loving and having respect for their mother. Being there for them to talk to, and spending quality time.
 The power of faith is so important. There are so many things throughout our everyday lives that test our faith. Our job is not what we envisioned, or our relationship isn't going as well as we think it should, we still have to have faith that things will indeed improve. Continue to have that faith, even when times look bleak and watch your perseverance be rewarded.