A psychology professor was giving his students a test. He asked one question concerning manic depression. "What would you call someone," the question read, "who walks back and forth screaming at the top of his lungs one minute and then sits in a chair and weeps uncontrollably the next?" One of the students answered, "A basketball coach."  Coaching basketball must take a terrible toll emotionally. That's why Indiana's Bobby Knight is famous for his tantrums, and Las Vegas Nevada's Jerry Tarkanian chews on a towel.   Coaches, though, are not the only persons who have to deal with extraordinary stress. Many very ordinary people do as well. 

St. Paul writes, "So we do not lose heart. Though our outer nature is wasting away, our inner nature is being renewed every day."  He means by the "outer…