Jack’s Winning Words 10/26/17
“A misery is not be measured from the nature of the evil, but from the temper of the sufferer.”  (Joseph Addison)  In the “olden days” people used some pretty descriptive terms to indicate they didn’t feel well.  For example…I’m sick as a dog…I’m ailing…I’m under the weather.  One that I especially remember:  I’ve got the miseries.  All suffering is not necessarily related to illness.  What gives you the miseries these days?  Malaise does it for me.    ;-)  Jack

FROM GOBLULYNN:  GM, J! May a big win over Rutgers help us out!====JACK:  The troops are restless.  Any team that loses its first-string QB is bound to have the miseries.====GB:  Maryland is playing with its third string QB.====JACK:  During the Great Depression, when there wasn't always what was needed, there was an expression: "We're just going to have to make do."

FROM HONEST JOHN:  I actually feel pretty good....both physically and emotionally.....I tend to be very positive about life!     A lot of that is because, ultimately, I think the Lord is very positive about us. ====JACK:  That's quite a trick...being positive in a negative world.  Or, maybe it's not the world that's negative...it may simply be the way most people view it.

FROM TARMART REV:  ...this old body of mine trying to keep up with this "fit as a fiddle" young man inside!!====JACK:  Perhaps you should be wearing that button which reads: PBPGINFWMY!  People might ask what it means, and you can say, "Please Be Patient.  God Is Not Finished With Me Yet." 

FROM FACEBOOK LIZ:  we all are suffering malaise...  the current state of things in the world is quite enough to give anyone uneasiness. add to that our personal lives... but such is life.  we’ll just have to search a little deeper for the beauty till the feeling passes...and it will.====JACK:  "till the feeling passes" reminds me of the person who prayed, "God give me patience...and give it to me right now!"====LIZ:  it subsides, anyway...====JACK:  In teaching the Lord's Prayer to children, when it says, "Thy will be done," Martin Luther writes, "The good and gracious will of God is done indeed without our prayer; but we pray in this petition that it may be done among us also."  God's will is done, whether we pray for it, or not.  The prayer is rather that we do his will.

FROM SHARIN' SHARON:  Enjoyed reflecting on your WW again this morning, even though miseries is such discomforting emotion to think about.  Here is Richard Rohr's meditation for today too in which he is reflecting on climate change, the miseries connected with it and yet a hopeful and encouraging word at the end of his essay.  A misery of mine is that President Trump seems to be putting in place, in his administration and cabinet, a whole slew of people whose opinions and perspectives run counter to the kinds of opinions and perspectives which I and many people I know hold.  This certainly is a misery but I take heart in knowing the opinion and perspective of the Pope and that I'm on the same side in caring about the indigenous people of the world and the people living a subsistence lifestyle in all the poor areas.  Enjoy your day, there is still the opportunity to pray and the power of faith to lead us forward to some sort of constructive actions.====JACK:  One of my miseries is frustration with people who can't see the world as I see it.  There misery is probably the same as mine.

FROM RS IN TEXAS:  (My misery is) G being in the hospital- but that’s also a source of hope...... and faith..... and love.====JACK:  It's a hard prayer, but it's a comforting prayer: "Thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven."

FROM BLAZING OAKS:  I suspect any of our miseries pale in comparison to most of the rest of the world...travel broadens your Horizon and makes you thankful for life in USA. Even in illness we have qualified  medical personnel to deal with it.  A small misery was seeing the CUBS LOSE, instead of CUBS WIN!! :-) But everything in perspective, it's a good life!====JACK:  Just wait another 100 years.  The Cubs will be back!!!!!