A fence post doesn't usually rot overnight, and neither do the weaknesses a storm in life reveals. This teaching from Kahu Phil Stephens asks one honest question: was this problem created by the storm, or did the storm just make visible something that had been happening for a long time?
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The Storm Did Not Rot the Post — It Revealed It
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