gnu:

I got a good laugh out of your last posting. And, in keeping with the title of this thread (tongue firmly in cheek) I suppose I HAVE to think up something crummy about today. I could say that I'm not looking forward to going out to shovel snow as soon as I get off the internet, but I really don't mind, so that doesn't count. But, I did have a really upsetting dream where I awoke heart-hurting, and I realize it's all part of something I am trying to work out in my waking hours.

Reminds me of a story. Doesn't everything? The Pastor of a Lutheran church I was a member of many years ago told me of his early years as a Pastor when he was a young man. At his first church, he was trying to find a way to get to know his parishioners so in a bible study, he asked each person to tell which bible saying gave them the greatest comfort and encouragement when they were struggling through hard times. The most common response was the 23rd Psalm... "Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I shall fear no evil..." But, when an elderly man's turn came, he said that whenever he is having hard times, the biblical saying that gets him through them is "And it came to pass." I really laughed when my friend Dennis told me that. In the bible, I've always thought of that phrase as a means of saying that time had passed, or just moving on to another "scene" in the bible. Kinda like a biblical version of "Meanwhile, back at the bunk house." But, that's not the way this old man took it. He figured that if it said "It came to pass" that it must be true, and whatever he was going through, it too would come to pass and he'd be alright. Kinda like a kidney stone.

So, whatever we are going through right now, it too will come to pass. It's a matter of getting through it, and in the meantime, trying to stay focused on the good things around us, so they don't slip away without notice.

   "How many good times are taken for granted,
    and only remembered when they've passed away?

Jerry