AFGANISTAN scene of CRUELTY COMPOUNDED -- Just A Minute Radio for Wednesday 100811

            I hope it’s a GREAT DAY where you are –

 

            This summer has been a corker… and I desperately hope the Lord will soon put a cork in it… it’s a hot water bottle – for sure.  Now look six months ahead and know that we will be *really wishing for the heat* when the winter wind doth blow – with the icicles and the snow.

 

            OK… I know I’m not Robert Frost… but we could surely use a whiff or two of that brisk White Mountain Air they love to boast about up there in the Granite State. A couple of summers ago, we had some really good friends who were willing to loan us their New Hampshire ‘summer’ cabin on the lake up there for a really nice family get together. As usual we had some folks who were posted overseas and couldn’t come… and we missed them – but at the same time we had a great and wonderful family week together… and I wish we had the means to repeat it.

 

            But – you can’t go home again… at least according to Thomas Wolf’s title of his best selling novel – at least that’s what the reviewers of the day said. And I think there’s truth there. Don’t you find when you revisit the scenes of say your elementary school days… things are so much smaller than you recall them?  The same thing happens to home towns and rivers, lakes and mountains you conquered as a Boy Scout.  The Pinnacle is not nearly so high as you remembered it.  Except when you go back and try to get to the top at ages 65 and above (possibly younger if you’ve been sitting on the couch too long).

 

            Well… I hope you pay attention to today’s JUST A MINUTE.  It bears a message I think America would do well to heed.  The news stories that appeared after the barbaric gunning down of the 10 person Christian medical team doing the Lord’s work in Afghanistan and thereby becoming martyrs to what seems to be becoming the ‘radical’ Muslim cohort… I believe that event ill be a landmark in the winding down and closing of events for the present in that part of the world.  Of course like most of my predictions…. You’ll find I have a very cloudy crystal ball.  So I claim no great prescience in that theatre.  But it does strike me as tragic and totally regrettable, It definitely will affect events transpiring from this time forward in that part of the world.

 

            Well… time to put away the computer keyboard… and head for bed. Thanks for reading and listening.. I’d love to hear from you via e-mail… but I know I would be very slow about responding… so if you do decide to write… patience will be a help. 

 

            Cordially, In HIM

 

            Jack

 

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“JUST A MINUTE”

 

CRUELTY COMPOUNDED

 

Jack: Just A Minute: Miz Pearl – you’re looking sad. Something wrong?

MizP: (Subdued) Well… akshully,  Yes,Mr. Jack.

Jack:  You want to talk about it?

MizP: Ah’m not sure – specially in frunt of everbody.

Homer:  We’s awl your frens Miz Pearl.

BB: Yeah…… sumbody stole your money.

MizP:  Sumbody stole sumpin’ that’s fer shure. .. But

BB: Miz Pearl you jist say th’ word… Homer’n me, we’ll round up sum helpers an we’ ll …

Homer:  Mr. Bill’s rite Miz Pearl… we don’t let stealin’ git away with nuthin in Playfair,,

MizP:  Hit ain’t perzakly stealin… l

Jack: I think you can trust this group Miz Pearl… what’s hurtin’ you?

MizP: Ah wuz a-lisnin’ ta th’ radio yestiddy morning – when they was a-tellin ‘bout the’ people

Gunned-down in Afghanestan.

BB: That-uz terrible … count stand hit my sef.

Homer:  Rite…

MizP: All them people… over there a-tryin’ ta hep people.

BB: Oh yeah… Rite… an payin’ they’re own way too.

MizP: An then … then (sniff) them terribul  terrerisst…they come an … an (sobs)

Jack:  I understand Miz Pearl – here’s my handkerchief.

MizP: Thankee…  But that weren’t all …

Jack: What else …?

MizP: Well… then the ‘News Nouncer cums back an says they was jist  ‘relegious…

Jack: That’s right…

MizP: Said they din’t have anythang ta do wif Christianity But Mr. Jack… tthey WAS  Christians!!!

Jack: Right… they were a medical team working on eyes and teeth…

Homer: An they had bin oveah theyur – several years I heered.

BB: One of them sold his practice an paid his own way over  to hep…

MizP: An tha-uts whut meks it so Painful… they was jist a-doin good.

Jack: The  newsman said they weren’t proselytizing.

MizP: They WUZ a tryin’ ta show them whut Jesus would do!

Homer: At’s eggackly rite Miz P…

MizP: But this news feller (sobs-sniffs) he said they wasn’t havin’ any thang ta do ‘ bout …

Homer: He shore was wrong Miz Pearl…

BB: Rite Homer …

Jack:  They were there – doing all they could to help because they were Christians…

BB: At’s perzakly rite…

Miz: I jist cunt unnerstan WHY he said they wasn’t Christians.

Jack: They were – and ARE – Christians… and when trusting Christ it means they ARE now with HIM.

MizP: Ah know tha-ut … Ah jist wanted sumbody to say sumpin.

Jack: I did too Miz Pearl… and now I think we have. –… I’m Jack Buttram.

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