Jack’s Winning Words 12/30/14
“Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better, it’s not.”  (Dr. Seuss)  A child painted this Seuss quote on the plywood that was covering a storefront in Ferguson.  One of the city residents said, “Children make this place appear a little less scary.”  I wonder if that might be one of the reasons God chose to reveal himself in the form of a child?    ;-)  Jack

FROM PEPPERMINT MARY:  god is revealed to me in the form of a child every day.  i learn so much from their freshness here on earth:)====JACK:  What a great job and privilege...to be able to work with children every day!

FROM INDY GENIE:  Children will teach us (if we're paying attention :)====JACK:  The words of
Jesus..."Unless you become as little children etc."

FROM BLAZING OAKS:  LOVE DR.SEUSS! HE GETS HIS  POINT ACROSS WITH HUMOR AND FANTASY, AND IT IS MEMORABLE. INTERESTING POINT YOU RAISE ABOUT GOD REVEALED IN THE FORM OF A CHILD BEING LESS SCARY.  CERTAINLY HELPS US IN IDENTIFYING WITH ALMIGHTY GOD. JESUS' CHILDHOOD IS PRETTY MUCH AN ENIGMA; UNTIL HIS BAPTISM AND THE WEDDING AT CANA AS A YOUNG MAN, WE ONLY HAVE THE STORY OF HIM BEING 'LEFT" AT THE TEMPLE, DISCOURSING WITH THE PRIESTS AND PHARISEES...DON'T SUPPOSE CHILDREN HAD BOOKS IN HIS DAY!  BUT IF THEY COULD HAVE, I BET THEY WOULD HAVE CHUCKLED OVER DR.  SEUSS! ====JACK:  When Jesus was a child, I wonder if there books, like Dr. Seuss's, for him to read?  Wouldn't it be interesting if Dr. Seuss had been able to translate some of the Biblical stories?

FROM OUTHOUSE JUDY:  How very humbling is our God.  He's great and mighty and Holy and to think He came down as a very fragile baby!  Wow.  He's also fearsome so to come as a baby allowed us to love Him without fear.====JACK:  From birth until his death (and ascension), we are called upon to see him in each stage as God among us as a human being.

FROM SHARIN' SHARON:  Actually, as recently as five or so years ago, when I would walk around the community here with my Godson in his stroller, and little later him walking too, it was the best way to strike up conversations with the neighbors. People seem to feel a common bond with a person when children are present. Maybe Jesus born as a baby was the common bond for the inn keeper, shepherds and wise men, though we hardly ever imagine them as fathers and family people or at least speak of them as such. Appreciated your WW today--I hope and pray that life becomes more peaceful again in Ferguson and they can get this traumatic time behind them and the media lets up a bit. ====JACK:  As a baby, Jesus doesn't seem so intimidating as when he explains how we are to treat each other as neighbors.  Do I have to do all that he said?