Moral Discipline

How far is it really possible for anyone to prepare for the great crises of life? We go on day after  day in an uneventful way,with commonplace duties and simple enjoyment, and then suddenly there comes a time when the whole order of our life is overthrown. Some emergency arises demanding unusual power. The daily routine is broken up, and we are called upon to make some great choice, something which is to determine all our future life. We are called upon to bear some heavy responsibility, to answer some hard question, to endure a great loss.