Jack’s Winning Words  4/18/22 “All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy, for what we leave behind us is a part of ourselves.”  (Anatole France)  Are you familiar with song, Melancholy Baby?  Ella Fitzgerald has a good rendition.  A melancholic mood is a mood, a kind of sadness over what has happened, over what might have been.  Maybe this sounds strange, but I can imagine Jesus singing that song to me, with the lyrics “Every cloud must have a silver lining.”  Yes, there are those “rainy days” for each of us, with unexpected changes, but the song advises us to “Look for the silver lining!”  We have a God who knows, understands and who cares.  So, smile and let the sun come shining through.  ;-)  Jack. FROM BLAZING OAKS:  Right!  Each new day is a gift. ===JACK:  I don't know if it fits, or not.  When we were in Sunday School, and it was our birthday, we'd bring pennies indicating how old we were.  There was a plastic cake in front with a slot in the top.  When the coins were put in the slot and a fake candle would light as everyone counted the years.  Then, everyone would sing: Jesus bids us shine,  With a clear, pure light, Like a little candle burning in the night; In this world of darkness, we must shine, You in your small corner,  And I in mine.