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Hey ya'll, I got an interesting excerpt from Steve that i thought would be great if i shared with you all. I got a wedding to go to kesho, so... it's fun all the way! Be Blessed! A Perplexing Life by Steve Arterburn In his excellent book entitled, The Treasure Principle , Randy Alcorn tells the story of his family’s trip to Egypt . While driving through the hot and dusty streets of Cairo , they passed a graveyard for American missionaries and decided to enter. One sun-scorched tombstone in particular caught their attention. At the top it read: William Borden , 1887-1913. What makes Borden so interesting is that he was a Yale graduate, and the heir to great wealth. Yet he rejected a life of ease in order to help bring the gospel to Egypt . He gave away hundreds of thousands of dollars to missions, and after only four months of ministry in Egypt , contracted spinal meningitis and died at age twenty-five. At the bottom of William Borden’s tombstone is the powerful littl