Winning Words 11/23/11
“If the only prayer you said in your whole life was, ‘Thank you,’ that would suffice.” (Meister Eckhart) Before there was Luther, the Germans had a “heretical” monk named, Meister Eckhart. He was part of a group who called themselves, “Friends of God.” That would be a good name for a church. BTW, if you’re looking for a table prayer to use tomorrow, how about: “Dear God, Thank you!”? ;-) Jack

FROM MT IN PENNSYLVANIA: Most excellent! :-)////FROM JACK: In grade school teachers would grade papers with the letters, E, VG, G, and P. I never got an ME. I do remember getting one P.////MORE MT: LOL!

FROM CWR IN B'MORE: Thank you........and have a good one.////FROM JACK: Meister E would approve of your reply.

FROM SHARIN' SHARON: I think E must be excellent, VG, very good and G good but what would a P stand for? thankful for privilege of prayer and that we don't need to pray as we ought but as we are able but actually wondering if, when all is said and done, it all starts and ends with thank you anyway because God is so good and we are "Friends of God", maybe even "heretical". Pondering this morning's WW.////FROM JACK: Privilege? Prayer? Pondering? Poor guesses. You were right about the others.////SS AGAIN: I like "Poor guesses". chuckle, chuckle LOL. Whatever, nothing sounds so bad as Failure or Flunk.////FROM JACK: F or P...the parent doesn't see the difference.

FROM PLAIN FOLKS CHESTER: God doesn't do stuff for us because he wants thanks. He does it because he loves us. but it's nice to be polite anyhow. Happy Thanksgiving, God.////FROM JACK: In his explanation of the petition of the Lord's Prayer..."Give us this day our daily bread," Martin Luther writes: "God gives daily bread, even without our prayer, to all people, though sinful, but we ask in this prayer that he will help us to realize this and to receive our daily bread with thanks." ...and so we pray, "Dear God, Thank you!"