Jack’s Winning Words 2/15/18
“moms thank u for showing me how to live and to spread the word  Love u more today than I did yesterday”  (Text from Snoop Dogg to his mother)  Believe it, or not…Dogg is in the process of creating an album of Gospel music.  He gives credit to his mother for inspiring him.  She’s an ordained evangelist and an advocate for battered women.  As her children were growing up, their home was always open for the neighborhood kids.  Think of how home has influenced you.    ;-)  Jack

FROM FACEBOOK LIZ:  snoop’s a stoner, but a good guy, pretty much...===JACK:   You got the message.  Even someone with a "rep" like Snoop Dogg's has a past.  I just wanted to point out the influence that a "home" can have on a person.  I recall that you've often mentioned the influence of home on your life.====LIZ:  people are born w/a sense of right & wrong to some extent. a conscience is a very real gift from god...====JACK:  My opinion, right or wrong, is that conscience is neutral at birth and is shaped by the social environment into which we are born.  Sociologists, psychologists and theologians may debate the subject, but who knows...for certain?====LIZ:  personality is largely genetic. intelligence is, for sure. psychoses are chemical in nature. ====JACK:  When it comes to how the brain works, I think that there are more questions than there are answers. ====LIZ:  agreed

FROM HONEST JOHN:  It not only lingers it has been exported to the North.   Amos would be appalled to see our country today....we make eighth century Israel look good.====JACK:  Where is that "Amos" of today who's willing to call out..."Listen to this, you fat cows of Bashan who are on the mountain of Samaria. You make it hard for the poor. You crush those in need. You say to your husbands, “Bring us something to drink!”  As the Lord God is holy, He has promised, “The days are coming when they will take you away with meat hooks. And the last of you will be taken with fish hooks.  You will go out through breaks in the walls. Each of you will go straight out. And you will be sent to Harmon,” says the Lord."  Substitute, if you will, names for the fat cows, the name of a place instead of Bashan, and Hell in place of Harmon.====JOHN:  They are not being heard....the fat cows of Bashan make too large a racket....and too many of those who call themselves either are deaf to the injustices or lack any credibility====JACK:  As we go back to each age in history, we see that things have a way of repeating themselves.  I'm reminded of the song lyric, "When will we ever learn?"

FROM TARMART REV:  More than I can think of . . . more so subconsciously, I'm sure! 0;-) ====JACK:  In many instances, it's not so much the "words" heard, but the examples seen.  As the Book of Proverbs says: "Train up a child in the way he should go, and when he is old he will not depart from it."

FROM TAMPA SHIRL:  My mother took care of her father for ten years while he had dementia.he stayed up all night and walked and slept all day. My father and I worked or went to school all day! Mother had the patience and love to do that for so many years!====JACK:  Snoop Dogg's words could be your words..."moms thank u for showing me how to live."

FROM GDJ IN WI:  Snoop Dog is one of my favorites!====JACK:  I'm more of a Spike Jones fan.

FROM CS:  Love this!====JACK:  It sounds like the home your boys grew up in.