THE HALL OF FAME FOR THE UNKNOWN [Sa, 5-2-20]

“DAILY” DEVOTIONAL-Listening for the Spirit

THE HALL OF FAME FOR THE UNKNOWN   [Sa, 5-2-20]

We had a very slight acquaintance with Joel Mabus when we lived in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula, for he would come up from the LP [Lower Peninsula], as Trolls [They live below the bridge… the Mackinac Bridge] are wont to do, to perform at The Second Sunday Folk Dance, at Fortune Lake, which is led by Whitewater, a string band, formed by Dean and Bette Premo, who are PhD environmentalists in their day job, in their firm, which is also named Whitewater, but are professional level musicians all the rest of the time. [Oh, I forgot and put in a period. There goes my ambition to do a whole column in one sentence…]

Anyway, Joel told us one Second Sunday that he is in the Michigan Music Hall of Fame, along with folks like Aretha Franklin, but he did not know it for several years, for nobody bothered to tell him. I’m not surprised. I looked at their web site just now, and they tell everything—especially how to send them money—except who the members of their HOF are.

That got me to thinking… maybe I’m in some Hall of Fame and don’t know it. It’s quite possible. The Dad Jokes Hall of Fame, for instance. It makes sense that whoever runs that hall of fame would not tell the inductees they are in, for that would be the ultimate Dad Joke.

I’m hoping that my unknown HOF is the FTHOF, the Failed Tryers HOF. Under each picture--assuming they acknowledge their members—it would say: Tried every day to be a better person. Failed every day. Tried again the next day…

Like Joel Mabus, you are probably in some HOF and just don’t know it. Maybe you could meditate on that… which HOF should you be in…

JRMcF

Jung said he had only one patient over the age of 35 whose main problem was not religious.