Jack’s Winning Words 8/21/14
“We are all visitors to this time, this place.  We are just passing through.”  (Aboriginal Proverb)  If you want to hear this quote put to music, go to The Whites on YouTube, singing “This World Is Not My Home.”  I might be there in one of the rocking chairs joining in on the chorus.  The fact of the matter is…Life is such that we come and we go; we’re just Earth-tourists.  What does Faith tell you about the next stop?    ;-)  Jack   

FROM TARMART REV:  "The best is yet to come!" while tapping my foot to, "This World Is Not My Home!"====JACK:  I'm going to the video to sing along with The Whites.

FROM SHARIN' SHARON:  Actually, the reason I can believe I'm a visitor, passing a brief time on earth, is because--from time-to-time--been able to experience some sort of strange "connection", "understanding", "healthier and more mutual relationship where have been able to feel I've 'let go' of myself with the other" with other visitors, this can even be experienced from reading the Bible, ergo understand the present isn't all there is to things and have faith that the future will be much more complete and "related all the time" than it seems to be now.====JACK:  Sometimes it's fun to sit back, relax and enjoy the scenery as time passes by.  The go-go world tries to make us feel guilty about that pleasure. 

FROM PEPPERMINT MARY:  deepak chopra believes that we are spiritual beings having occasional human experiences.  all i know is that i've been on earth before and i'm here now.  as far as what comes next...iris dement and i'll just let the mystery be!====JACK:  I'm suspicious of those who have all of the answers.====MARY:  life is a mystery.  i look forward to my next path.  thanks for my song of the day. i love iris!====JACK:  There are always "path" choices before us.  Our next step puts us on one of them.

FROM MICHIZONA RAY:  ....that Faith suggests that there is an eternal, and the temporal state of the body remains from whence it came, and "I" return from whence I came.====JACK:  I like the lyrics from the song sung by Iris Dement....
Everybody's wonderin' what and where they all came from.
Everybody's worryin' 'bout where they're gonna go when the whole thing's done.
But no one knows for certain and so it's all the same to me.
I think I'll just let the mystery be.

Some say once you're gone you're gone forever, and some say you're gonna come back.
Some say you rest in the arms of the Saviour if in sinful ways you lack.
Some say that they're comin' back in a garden, bunch of carrots and little sweet peas.
I think I'll just let the mystery be.

Everybody's wonderin' what and where they all came from.
Everybody's worryin' 'bout where they're gonna go when the whole thing's done.
But no one knows for certain and so it's all the same to me.
I think I'll just let the mystery be.

Some say they're goin' to a place called Glory and I ain't saying it ain't a fact.
But I've heard that I'm on the road to purgatory and I don't like the sound of that.
Well, I believe in love and I live my life accordingly.
But I choose to let the mystery be.

Everybody's wonderin' what and where they all came from.
Everybody's worryin' 'bout where they're gonna go when the whole thing's done.
But no one knows for certain and so it's all the same to me.
I think I'll just let the mystery be.
I think I'll just let the mystery be.

FROM BLAZING OAKS:  Faith tells us that Jesus went to prepare a place for  us, that where  He is, there  we will be also.  There are a lot of  questions about how, what, and where, but that is where faith comes in...As  your professor once said, "You can't unscrew the inscrutable!"  so yes, "we have to let the mystery be", and continue to try to do unto others....====JACK:  I have a number of favorite Bible verses for different occasions.  In this instance, one that I like is, "I believe.  Help my unbelief."

FROM THE FLIGHT INSTRUCTOR:  We are all in transition with earth being an intermediate stop! I have faith that I will see my parents again!!====JACK:  Since we do not know the details for sure, God allows us to use our imagination.  Streets of gold.  Gates of pearl.  Angels.  Loved ones.  Your parents.  Mine, too.  "Eye has not seen, nor ear heard, the things that God has prepared for those who love him."