TEMPERED STEEL
HOW GOD SHAPES A MAN'S HEART THROUGH ADVERSITY
Chapter One
Trapdoors
and Pit Stops
God works strangely.
He often enriches by impoverishing.
Thomas Watson
There are two ways to get a hotel named after you.
The first approach is to own the place.
If you can scare up the cash to buy or build a hotel, then you have the
right to slap your name over the door. Conrad Hilton built Hilton hotels
around the world. J. Willard Marriott did the same with his Marriott chain.
That's the first way to get a hotel named after you.
The second method doesn't require cash. It requires greatness.
There is a hotel in Jerusalem that is the hotel in Israel-and one of the great
hotels in all the world. This hotel has been the meeting place of diplomats and
CEOs from every corner of the planet. Under its roof, three different governments
in exile have headquartered themselves at various times throughout
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