Ordeal: any extremely severe or trying test, experience, or trial. Synonyms: agony, anguish, calamity, distress, nightmare, torment, torture, trial, tribulation – Thesaurus.com Here’s the funny thing: when you look up the definition of ordeal, the word judgment is entirely missing from the dictionary listing, and yet that is the etymological root of the term: in … Continue reading Henk Pander – The Ordeal