Jack’s Winning Words 6/23/17
“Life doesn’t have to be perfect to be wonderful.”  (Annette Funicello)  Do remember Annette as a Mouseketeer?  She was so perky!  But life has its problems.  At age 50 she was diagnosed with a disease which changed her way of looking at life.  She was determined to help find a cure and set up a foundation for that.  At her death her daughter said, “She’s now dancing in heaven.”  Have you ever thought of heaven as a perky place…with laughing and dancing?    ;-)  Jack

FROM TARMART REV:  Sure do!!====JACK:  When I was a child...and there was lightening and thunder, I was told that it was the sound of bowling in heaven.====REV:  I was as well?!?! ====JACK:  No gutter balls or splits, either.

FROM LBP:  V is scared about heaven because it goes on for forever. It's too hard to wrap our simple brains around. I don't try because I'm sure I'm wrong.====JACK:  For us, who live in a time-constrained world...it's hard  (particularly for children) to imagine timelessness.  One of my favorite quotes: "God doesn't wear a wristwatch."

FROM SHARIN' SHARON:  My mother, in her later years, suffered from every type of arthritis imaginable it seemed--rheumatoid, osteoporosis, so forth. In the end, she was completely bedridden. But I always remember her wish, even early on, that she only wanted to be able to cross her legs again and when she got to heaven she would enjoy crossing her legs. Probably she hadn't gone dancing even once in her life--coming from the sort of plain puritannical background she came from but I feel absolutely sure and positive that on her seat on the cloud, she is having the perfect freedom to cross her legs again. And doing it perkily with a big giggle like the fun-loving mom I remember so well====JACK:  Some of the best-loved Gospel songs had their origin with the slaves who saw heaven as a place where there would be no more burdens.

FROM TAMPA SHIRL:  How true that is!====JACK:  I'm impressed by those who are able to take the bad and find a way to make it good.

fFROM OUTHOUSE JUDY:  My sisters and I loved the Mouseketeer and Annette was our favorite.  Kimberly had an opportunity to be in a Disney World production of the mouseketeers when we were down there on vacation.  They saw many actors who are famous today but weren't then.  She wasn't impressed.  A lot of standing around or sitting around waiting.  Heaven will be filled with dancing and laughter!====JACK:  It's interesting how we try to imagine the unimaginable...streets of gold, dancing, laughter, wings...when heaven is beyond imagination.  I guess we just have to work with the "tools" that we have.

FROM BLAZING OAKS:  Yes, I have, and I hope it is true!!  We don't know what to expect, but in our mortal way, we envision HAPPY place!====JACK:  Calling heaven a "Happy Place," describes it well.  Do you happen to have this song in your hymnal?
Soon and very soon,   We are going to see the King,
Soon and very soon,   We are going to see the King.
Soon and very soon,   We are going to see the King,
Hallelujah, hallelujah,   We are going to see the King.
Other verses...
No more crying there.  We are going to see the King.
No more dying there.  We are going to see the King.

FROM PEPPERMINT MARY:  it's the only way i think of heaven.  one beautiful continuation of the musical of life!====JACK:  YouTube the James Brown worship service clip in the Blues Brothers movie to see a version of musical happiness in heaven.====MARY:  i love that scene!