The ‘candle’ for the first month of 2021 is someone whom God has brought in to heal a seriously wounded nation—a nation that could help or harm the entire world in many ways. The chosen healer is Joseph Robinette Biden, Jr., or, more simply, Joe Biden, President-elect of the United States of America.
The most effective healers, we know, are wounded healers. They seek healing passionately, because they know what it means to be wounded.
Joe Biden’s father was a blue collar worker, cleaning furnaces and selling used cars. When Biden was a child, he struggled with a stutter. His classmates mocked him, calling him ‘Joe Impedimenta.’ But he memorized long poems and recited them standing in front of the mirror and eventually managed to overcome the problem. In order to afford the school fees, he cleaned the school windows and weeded the gardens. Therefore, unlike his predecessor—a billionaire play boy—Biden understands the problems of the poor and the middle class.
Tragedies have taught him patience, hope and strength. He lost his son, Beau Biden, to brain cancer at the age of forty-six. What he suffered when Beau was a little boy looks like a poignant scene in a tragic movie….
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