14 Ways Adversity Refines and Fortifies You

We live in stressful times. Crime, gas prices, inflation and a host of other problems confront us on a daily basis. Yet these times of testing can be turned for good.          Motivational writer Napoleon Hill did a study of the richest men in early 20th-century America to see what caused them to succeed. He found that the only thing they had in common was overcoming a crushing adversity. James says we should “consider it pure joy” when we encounter trials, because adversity develops persever