Jack’s Winning Words 6/18/14
“Take time to deliberate, but when the time for action has arrived, stop thinking and go in.”  (Napoleon)  Most of us don’t like the unknown, so we tend to put off making the hard decisions, resorting to over-thinking situations.  Here are some suggestions.  Set the timer…Listen to your gut…Get a 2nd opinion…Do a mental dry run…Take the leap.  God bless you in your decision making today!    ;-)  Jack 

FROM HAWKEYE GEORGE:  A very good 'un!====JACK:  It fits a variety of circumstances, doesn't it?

FROM TARMART REV:  As you have time . . . Google "McColloch's Leap" . . . hoping it runs like this in the family!!====JACK:  Wow!  Is he a relative of your's?  Google says:  McColloch's Leap was a feat performed during a September 1777 attack by Native Americans on Fort Henry, site of present-day Wheeling, West Virginia, during the American Revolutionary War.  In September 1777, during a Native American siege on the fort, Major Samuel McColloch arrived at the fort with forty mounted men from Short Creek. The gates of the fort were thrown open to allow the men entrance. Major McColloch lingered behind to guide and protect the men. The Indians attacked, and all of the men except McColloch made it inside before they were forced to close the gates. McColloch found himself alone and surrounded by Native Americans, and he rode immediately towards the nearby hill in an attempt to escape. McColloch had earned a reputation as a very successful "borderer" (one who protected the frontier borders from the Native Americans) and was well known to both the frontiersmen and the Indians. The Indians eagerly pursued McColloch, and drove him to the summit of the hill.  As he rode along the top of the hill, he encountered another large body of Indians. He now found himself surrounded, with no path of escape. He knew that, because of his reputation and history against the Indians, he would be tortured and killed with great cruelty if he were to be captured alive. With all avenues of escape cut off, he turned and faced the precipice, and with the bridle in his left hand and his rifle in his right, he spurred his horse over the edge to an almost certain death. The hill at that location is about three hundred feet in height, and in many places is almost perpendicular.  The Indians rushed to the edge, expecting to see the Major lying dead in a crumpled heap at the bottom of the hill. To their great surprise they instead saw McColloch, still mounted on his white horse, galloping away from them.

FROM PLAIN FOLKS CHESTER:  Some people are deliberate and some people deliberate, but not all deliberate people deliberate and most all people who deliberate are deliberate. Abe Blazer. ====JACK:  I looked it up.  To de-liberate is to take free people and make them slaves again.

FROM FACEBOOK LIZ:  Like a whole bunch... LAWB.====JACK:  I looked up LAWB, not realizing that the answer was right before me.  We do that with lots of things.