Although we all enjoy reading the fortunate individual's "success story" who "made it big" - those stories are usually few and far between. Studying family history I've learned that most of us live a life of constant struggle and trials. While today we may complain of our occasional troubles, I've found they pale in comparison to those of our ancestors!
We can learn much from studying the past and the lives of those who have gone before us. How did they handle adversity and hardship? How do we choose to deal with trials and trouble today? Many of them - as well as most of us - choose to run from it! But the folly of this strategy was made quite eloquently in a very profound and yet simplistic statement by the fictional character Uncle Remus...
You can't run away from trouble... There ain't no place that far...
~ Uncle Remus
The most successful individuals are those who have faced their hardships head-on! While we don't have to like trouble and adversity, we do have to learn to deal with it! Oliver Wendell Holmes put it quite nicely...
If I had a formula for bypassing trouble, I would not pass it round. Trouble creates a capacity
to handle it. I don't embrace trouble; that's as bad as treating it as an enemy. But I do say meet it as a
friend, or you'll see a lot more of it and had better be on speaking terms with it.
~ Oliver Wendell Holmes
There are no perfect people, and no perfect families... The HARBERT family and their stories are the same. We have our "Heroes & Villians" as well as our "Skeletons in The Closet." I present their stories and lives here as delicately but as honestly as I can. I hope you find them entertaining and intriguing.
