Thank God: The Pope is Humble and 13 is NOT an Unlucky Number!
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“For whosoever exalted himself shall be abased: and he that humbleth himself shall be exalted.”
St. Luke Ch. 14, V. 11
—If there is such a thing as lucky numbers.
I was in the doctor’s office today…and I was thinking about the date: 3-13-13. Not usually suspicious, I remembered my mother had her massive stroke on Friday the 13th.
“Oh…”I said to the nurse.. as I noticed the date. “It’s not Friday, hopefully that’s good news.”
I was there to get the results of my brain MRI.
Sitting in the office trying not to think about the news I might get, and trying to brace myself for bad news, I was watching the crowds of Catholics in Rome. They were all standing in the rain, in the cold…waiting…hoping for a new pope soon….
Hope. God, we need hope more than anything nowadays don’t we?
As I sat looking at the doctor he said: “Your scan is normal.”
Did I cry? You bet I did. Strokes run in the family, all the way back to JQA collapsing on the floor of the house. I know the damage that is done with a stroke. Odds are, I will die of one…but not today.
Today was a good day. And the 13th even…how bout that?
After I got home, I was anxious to see the new Pope, and I must say, at the very sight of him, I cried again. I’m sure some of it was stress from the last month and the day, but I could just see by looking at his face: This WAS a man of God. This man, wasn’t going to get caught up in the power of the position. In fact, I don’t ever think I have ever gotten such a good first impression from any Pope I’ve ever seen.
VATICAN CITY (AP) — Jorge Bergoglio of Argentina was elected pope Wednesday, becoming the first pontiff from the Americas and the first from outside Europe in more than a millennium. He chose the name Francis, associating himself with the humble 13th-century Italian preacher who lived a life of poverty.
So, the prophesy of this being the LAST pope, gets thrown in the —(Uh– nope)—trash bin right along with the Mayan prophesy of 2012.
Pope Francis, will follow Jesus, and that’s a good thing for us all.
But, did the day have anything to do with it? Does this redeem the number 13, as just another silly superstition?
Who cares? God bless the new Pope…let’s hope he brings back real HOPE to the whole world.
About
I am a nobody. If the different classes of America were color-coded, I would be in the yucky brown, one rung up from the bottom. I grew up in Naples, Florida and live near the Mississippi River now with my husband and two dogs. I am part of the slowly disappearing middle-class. I was a musician most of my life: drummer/singer/keyboards—but I retired before the plastic surgery flu hit. I have no degrees, which could be a good thing…depending on how you view our educational system. I do have three patents…but that really doesn’t make me a somebody. The one thing that is constant in my life is my OPINIONS, which i have more than perhaps even Carl Sagan could have imagined…mostly political. (yes…my ancestors were crabby buggers)
Hopefully other nobody’s will put their opinions on my site. But, if you happen to be a somebody, you’re more than welcomed to help out.
It’s my Nobody Opinion that Nobody’s Perfect, and Nobody Cares, that Nobody Knows why Nobody Wins, and when that happens, Nobody Wonders, why Nobody Flashes, why Nobody’s Fooled, but then Nobody remembers that Nobody ALWAYS Reports the truth.
You can email me at joyanna_adams@yahoo.com
Joyanna Adams
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