Jack’s Winning Words  4/13/20 “Hope is a great thing, maybe the best of things.  No good thing ever dies.”  (From the film Shawshank Redemption)  I once read of some trapped miners who tapped a message to those trying to rescue them.  “Is there any hope?”  I can’t recall the outcome, but I do see a connection with today’s anxiety.  Easter says that “there is hope!”  God’s not dead…He lives, and we shall live.  I’ve been around long enough to see “evil” defeated and “good” come from it.  Keep hoping for the good.   ;-)  Jack FROM BETTY:  Oh, did you finally get around to watching Shawshank?===JACK:  Yes, I did finish watching that movie.  I like movies where the bad guys get their comeuppance.  I like it in real-life, too.  Upon re-reading the message I went back and changed a grammatical error.  FROM NORM'S BLOG:  Hope never dies, but sometimes it eludes us. Perhaps it is because we are so consumed with fear or anxiety that we fail to look for it. Hope is like an onion with many layers. You may start with I hope things get better soon or perhaps I hope things get back to normal soon. There may be a layer that says, I hope they find a cure for this soon. Right below that hope maybe the layer that says, I hope I don’t get this virus. If you dig down deep enough, at the core for almost everyone is the hope  - I hope I don’t die from this virus.===JACK:  "My hope is built on nothing less" that it is as we pray in the Lord's Prayer: "Thy will be done on earth!" FROM OUTHOUSE JUDY:  He’s more alive today!  We find him everywhere now...people are reaching out and showing the best of humanity like never before.  He is alive and with us always.===JACK:  Yes, he's alive...just using different disguises. FROM ME IN NEWPORT BEACH:  Nice.   How did you spend your Easter and did you watch the Bocelli solo “prayer” concert?===JACK:  Yesterday we had a Family Zoom with 17 of us participating.  We also watched the stage production of Jesus Christ, Superstar...then the Bocelli concert.  On Good Friday we watched the movie, Gandhi (fitting for the day).===ME:  Nice and thanks for the additional suggestions. I do not think I have seen the movie Gandhi, so I copy Marilyn here.===JACK:  I purposely watched it on Good Friday.  See if you cad discern the reason  why. FROM ST PAUL:  good words for the Easter season, Jack.  hope you had a good day yesterday.  we got about 6 inches of snow! ===JACK: COVID-19 has caused us to do the usual things in different ways.  Zoom family get together.  Easter church on TV.  More movies. FROM JR IN ANDOVER:  My favorite verse: Romans 5:3-5 .   Hope never fails us. ===JACK:  Hope-less is a discouraging word.