A personal account of persisting through hardship. The speaker credits faith for their refusal to quit, uses the metaphor of a chip in a chair to mean staying in the game, and mentions lung disease as their particular challenge. They're grateful their wife, children, and friends stayed.
Chapters
I do thank God for one quality that I recognize I have in myself is that I will never quit. Call it the Holy Spirit, call it just a blessing that God's given me, but I will never quit. I can't. It's not in my nature to quit. It's just something that I want and hope. And I pray that my kids have it, that it's instilled in them. Because life's gonna come at you. It's gonna throw everything at you, but you can't quit. You can't quit, you know, so long as you have a chip in a chair, you're still at the table, you're still playing. You're in the game. And my chip was the lung. They aired my lungs, you know, and the fact that my wife is still at home with me, that my children are still at home with me, that my friends are still around me.