HOLA HANDICAPPERS -- WANTED AT THE STARTING GATE -- Just A Minute Radio for Friday 110121

            Here we are already at the end of another week – with the weather folks making urgent noises… although I think it’s directed more at the mountains… and the Northeast than at us… but one never can tell.

 

            In any case if Washington gets more snow it might help keep tempers cool.  All the rumors I come across say “The Honeymoon – short as it was for the 112^th Congress – is over!  And I suppose we should take that pronouncement at face value.

 

            The news impending when I was writing this, was that on Friday – the Congresswoman from Arizona’s 8^th District is due to be released from the hospital there in Tucson – taken by ambulance to the airfield nearby and flown to Houston for one of the best ‘rehab’ hospitals in the USA.  It also happens to be where Gabby Giffords husband has family and a home – near the Houston Space Center – and so it’s an excellent situation all round.

 

            My own thoughts – just for a moment – is that it will be awfully hard for the public at large to realize what at once is an amazingly quick recovery thus far for the young legislator.  At the same time the doctors are cautioning it will be a long road back, with no certified guarantees she will recover in every way to the level of being the ‘same person’ as she was before the terrible crime inflicted upon her. So I pray for her recovery in the Lord’s will – and fully expect that will be the case.

 

            We are so certain of having things done ‘for the best’ as we see it. Yet a thorough study of the inspired Holy Scriptures – show us that the one certain thing we do NOT see is what’s happening here as seen from God’s viewpoint. It just happens my usual Bible reading schedule has recently taken me through the chapters in Genesis where Joseph – the youngest son of Jacob (Israel) – has had an amazingly bad streak of what we might call bad luck… [Chapters 37 – 50 of Genesis] in that his brothers all turned against him – even Reuben who would have rescued him from being thrown in the dry well was thwarted in his would-be rescue.  Joseph then suffered being sold into slavery, being lied about by his master’s wife, being forgotten in prison by a man whom he had befriended… What a string of ‘rotten luck’ would be the world’s judgment. It’s better than any novel I’ve read.

 

            Yet – all the time God was preparing for Joseph to be means of saving his family from starvation and indeed fulfilling the promises God had made to Abraham.  And Joseph was indeed the one who pulled the whole family through the fires of adversity – and I could go on.  The basic thing is: WE do not see all that is happening as God sees it and orders it.  That is *exactly* what has happened up to now in this political situation – and what *IS* going to happen going forward as God leads us along. I am more certain about that than anything I can think of.

 

            So… with that I’ll sign-off for this week – wish you well – and know that if you know the Lord, HE is able to do exceedingly, abundantly, above, ALL, that we can ask or think. – Ephesians 3:20 and the verses surrounding it. You’ll enjoy reading that – just get the Bible in hand.  See you Monday.

Thanks for sticking with me.

 

Cordially, IN Him

 

Jack

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HOLA HANDICAPPERS – WANTED AT THE STARTING GATE

Just a Minute: - “You can’t beat *somebody* with *nobody.” That’s the folk wisdom of Washington – and absolutely true.

Incoming freshman legislators have barely found their way to through the tunnels from office buildings to the Capitol – but they learn fast.

 Heath Shuler, re-elected Democrat from western North Carolina, did *not* vote to repeal health care though many thought he would. Where do we go from here?

          Senator ‘Searchlite’ Harry of Nevada says the GOP ought to throw down their weapons since they can’t control the President or his veto. But that won’t wash with the folks who sent them to Washington to make a difference.  It looks like most of them plan try. Will they find a winning strategy? No clear view in sight. 

          A speculation back 2008 by Michael Barone, who I respect, said the GOP would need to win 40 seats as in ’94 – He didn’t think they could… in 2010 they won 63… Conclusion? We all “see through a glass darkly.” So… it’s really best we ‘pray and not faint.’

<>I’m Jack Buttram. (END)

 

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