Jack’s Winning Words 8/24/21

“Everybody’s working to get to the top, but where is the top?”  (Rihanna)  A poem (Be the Best of Whatever You Are) tells of a scrubby bush that wanted to be a stately pine tree.  Poet Douglas Malloch writes:  “If you can’t be a tree…be the best little bush by the side of the road!”. Rihanna knows what it is to be “a scrub” growing up in an abusive home in Barbados.  The TOP for her was not becoming a musical star, but it was for her to be “the best little scrub.”  Today, why not determine to be the best of whatever you are?”  ;-)  Jack

FROM WILLMAR REV:  "Even a scrub brush cleaning urinals, I've been told!" 0;-)===JACK:  There are people who make a living scrubbing toilets, emptying bedpans and collecting garbage.  I can picture Jesus doing that.  Can you?  

FROM MAD SCIENTIST:  I struggle with “best.” As in the quote, where is the top (best). Can’t we just say “whatever you do, do it well?”===JACK:  I've known children who couldn't draw or write as well as others,  The good teacher would encourage them by saying, "Do the bes you can,"  

FROM SR RD:  Wonderful, dear Jack!  Good News!  Good directives!===JACK:  I always likef the story of Brother Lawrence who was content to scrub pans in the kitcher,  He was probably the best little "scrubber" there.

FROM SCIENTIST:  Sure and the Cub Scout motto is “do your best.” But some of us have to watch that “perfect become the enemy of the good” and just get stuff done===JACK:  I'm a little bit of both (It's good enough!), but at other times I work ans work trying to make something "perfect."  Is there ever something that's perfect?