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Play In Pain
June 19, 2013

Baseball Hall-of-Fame catcher Gary Carter was a follower of Jesus. During his 19-year career, he drew strength and endurance from his faith in God to compete day after day. In an article that appeared in the Wall Street Journal shortly after Carter died of brain cancer at age 57, writer Andrew Klavan told how Carter had influenced his life.

In the late 1980s, Klavan had sunk to a low point in his life. His mind dwelt on suicide. Then he heard Carter interviewed after a game. His team, the New York Mets, had won, and the aging catcher had helped by running hard at a critical point in the game. Carter was asked how he could do that with his aching knees. Klavan heard him say something like this: “Sometimes you just have to play in pain.” That simple statement helped draw Klavan out of his depression. “I can do that!” he declared. Encouraged, he found hope—and later became a believer in Christ.

The comforting truth behind Carter’s statement comes from Lamentations. We may face sorrow, pain, and hardship, but we don’t have to sink into self-pity. The same God who allows our suffering also showers us with His compassion (Lam. 3:32). With God’s love lifting us up, we can—if we have to—“play” in pain.

Along life’s pathway troubles come
That God will help us bear;
Then we can look beyond the pain
To those who need our care. —Branon

God will either spare you from suffering or give you the grace to bear it.

Read: Lamentations 3:1-3, 25-33

Though He causes grief, yet He will show compassion. —Lamentations 3:32

Bible in a Year:
Nehemiah 12-13; Acts 4:23-37

[Kathy in Alaska]

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[SkyDancer]

Hi - Seems that I "You Speak General American English!"

Giggity - I'm still American!!!!

[2111USMC]

IN!

[SandRat]

You Speak General American English!

50% General American English

20% Dixie

15% Upper Midwestern

10% Yankee

5% Midwestern

[MS.BEHAVIN]

You Speak Yankee!

50% Yankee

25% General American English

15% Upper Midwestern

10% Dixie

0% Midwestern

What Kind of American English Do You Speak?

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CHARLESTOWN, Mass. (Jan. 14, 2008) The first major snowfall of the New Year blankets the USS Constitution. Despite the weather "Old Ironsides," remained open for free public tours. At 210 years-old, USS Constitution is the oldest commissioned warship afloat in the world, manned by 67 active-duty United States Sailors and visited by nearly half a million visitors annually. U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 1st Class Eric Brown (Released)

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Boston, Oct. 21, 2009 - Boatswains Mate 2nd Class Philip Gagnon pipes as USS Constitution performs an underway demonstration in honor of the three-masted wooden frigate's 212th birthday. (U.S. Navy photo by Airman Mark Alexander/Released).
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USS Constitution's 1812 Marine Guard fire vintage Springfield flintlock muskets during the ship's underway. "Old Ironsides" was underway for the "Constitution Day Cruise," which is conducted to thank the family and supporters of Constitution. U.S. Navy photo by Airman Nick Lyman (Released)

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"Riamh nár dhruid ó sbairn lann!"

Genuflectimus non ad principem sed ad Principem Pacis!

Listen, O isles, unto me; and hearken, ye people, from far; The LORD hath called me from the womb; from the bowels of my mother hath he made mention of my name. (Isaiah 49:1 KJV)

[2111USMC]

You Speak General American English!

80% General American English

10% Upper Midwestern

5% Midwestern

5% Yankee

0% Dixie

What Kind of American English Do You Speak?

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[Fiji Hill]

According to the quiz, I speak General American. Here are some additional characteristics of my speach:

• Water flows from a faucet, not a spigot

• "caught" and "cot" are pronounced the same

• "Minnie," "Mini" and "Many" are pronounced the same, and they rhyme with "Any."

• "Anti-"--as in "Anti-virus"--rhymes with "Can't I"

• There is no cow in Moscow

• A warning over the radio or TV of a traffic jam is called a SigAlert--a term, unknown east of the Cajon Pass, which was coined in the 1950's by a TV newsman named Lloyd Sigmund

• A dry wind from the east is called a Santa Ana wind. Just over the hill to the west in Ventura County, it is simply called an east wind.

[GOP Poet]

70% General American English
20% Upper Midwestern
10% Yankee
0% Dixie
0% Midwestern

[Clinging Bitterly]

A little bit of Yankee and a little bit of southern peppered with sniglets of my own. I do know when to use you, y'all, and all y'all.

The Queen would not be amused. But she would hold her own umbrella.

[lightman]

60% General American English

20% Yankee

15% Dixie

5% Upper Midwestern

0% Midwestern

+ + +

Vat’s wrong with dis?

Awk, they don’t have Pennsylvania Dutch, still.

[yarddog]

55% American English

40% Dixie

5% Yankee.

I was born and reared in the Florida panhandle as had most of my ancestors going back to the 1700s.

I remember something odd. When I lived in Western Kansas, people were constantly asking if I was from Texas.

[mylife]

You Speak General American English!

70% General American English

10% Upper Midwestern

10% Yankee

5% Dixie

5% Midwestern

What Kind of American English Do You Speak?

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[Aliska]

You Speak General American English!

75% General American English

15% Upper Midwestern

5% Midwestern

0% Dixie

0% Yankee

[AZamericonnie]

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[TLI]

40% General American English

40% Texan

20% Dixie

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[Sursum Corda]

You Speak General American English!

65% General American English

15% Dixie

15% Yankee

5% Midwestern

0% Upper Midwestern

What Kind of American English Do You Speak?

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[henkster]

General American English. Despite being a Hoosier, I am told I speak without a discernable accent.

I am Everyman.

[AZamericonnie]

You Speak General American English!

70% General American English

15% Yankee

10% Upper Midwestern

5% Dixie

0% Midwestern

What Kind of American English Do You Speak?

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