In Ogden Nash’s poem, “The Outcome of Mr. MacLeod’s Gratitude,” he tells of a wife who was always complaining . . . and a husband who conversely managed to be grateful for everything. What a combination--one always complaining and the other always grateful. The last stanza of the poem goes like this:
So she tired of her husband’s cheery note
And she stuffed a tea-tray down his throat.
He remarked from the floor, where they found him reclining,
“I’m just a MacLeod with a silver lining!”
I hope you have come to this service today with a genuine sense of Thanksgiving for the things God has done for you. I hope that you have found the silver lining that accompanies any cloud that may have come into your life.
Our lesson from the Gospel is about a man who, at one time in his life, would hav…