Winning Words 1/19/10
“Faith is taking the first step when you don’t see the whole staircase.” (MLK, Jr) There are many instances when these words can be repeated. Circumstances sometimes cause us to venture out and just trust that things will work out. It would be a different world without the need for faith, and a lot less interesting. ;-) Jack

FROM HS IN MICHIGAN: Agreed. Faith (and diverse perspectives) do indeed keep life interesting! FROM JACK: Not only interesting, but meaningful, too.

FROM SH IN MICHIGAN: There was another Martin Luther King, Jr., quote on the back of our program from our Walk yesterday, "In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends." 2010, still finding out things he said that just stick in a person's mind. Thanks for quoting him today. FROM JACK: We're still learning. The issue is not behind us.

FROM MF IN MICHIGAN: Makes me think that my life could be considered that staircase, every year I get older is another step. I have to trust that things will work out and have faith to make it another 30 or 40
years. FROM JACK: We each have an hour glass, made of blackened glass, which contains grains of sand reprenting the length of our life. We make the best of each day. Faith helps us to go on.

FROM SG IN TAMPA: How true that is. Also I believe that faith is a gift and some people refuse it. FROM JACK: Your response causes me to think. Is faith a gift (from God), or is it part of our free will. Regardless, what you have said is true.

FROM LG IN MICHIGAN: Awesome!!! FROM JACK: That's a good word.

FROM OUTHOUSE JUDY: Faith is knowing we are cared for and loved even when it doesn't seem like it. Talking with my grandsons yesterday in the car about the Trinity. One is grandson is 10 the other is 5. I was explaining how in faith we believe there are three in one...the Father, Son and Holy Spirit. They were having problems understanding so I used my hand. There is a thumb, a pointer finger and a middle finger, but they are all from the same hand. They understood that easily. We had a long talk about faith and I think I learned more than they did! FROM JACK: I'll have to remember that one.

FROM MOLINER CF: It takes a tremendous amount of faith because you don't even know if the staircase goes up or down. FROM JACK: Look at the first step. Is it up or down? Then, look at the next step. "One step, and then another...."

FROM CJL IN OHIO: We have to know where the staircase is leading before we take that first step. FROM JACK: That's the whole point of faith. We don't "know," so we have to "believe."

FROM GC IN SAN DIEGO: Right on, Jack! FROM JACK: As the hymn puts it....We are marching in the light of God.

FROM DS IN MICHIGAN: Trying to encourage my 23 year old just this. So tough trying to find career work. FROM JACK: No one said that faith would be easy.

FROM ML IN ILLINOIS: reminds me of the song, "jacob's ladder", brothers...sisters...all. FROM JACK: That's a good connection.