Where do you go when you feel hopeless? Dick learned something about that when he was 13. Dick was raised in a Lutheran Church and age 13 was confirmation time. The climax of the two-year confirmation program was the public examination. At this examination the pastor put his class on public display. With the parents of the confirmands present, the pastor grilled the students with questions about what they had learned in the course of their two-year instruction period. It was quite an ordeal!

Dick wasn't too worried about the public examination. He had prepared well and knew what was expected of him. On the night of the examination he did just fine. He knew the answer to all the questions the pastor asked and answered some of the questions that the other students didn't get right. Dick fel…