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An inspiring message

Fri., Sept. 13, 2019

On Sept. 28, 2018, I served as a substitute teacher at Kettle Falls High School. In the room where I taught was a statement by Albert Einstein, who was one of the most brilliant human beings to have ever lived. His statement on the wall read, “It’s not that I am so smart, it’s just that I stay with problems longer.”

This statement made me think of the scripture verse in Isaiah 26:7 which states, “The way of the just is uprightness: thou, most upright, dost weigh the path of the just.”

Arthur Houk

Colville, Wash.

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