on an e-mail that made my day...

haha, my friend wrote me the following early this morning:

"

Hi Jack,

 

Just looking at the pictures, thanks for uploading it.

I was wondering if your header, "Suffering and Joy may not be incompatible, but Bitterness and Joy is" makes sense or not...

 

It's a double negative in the first part of the sentence- Suffering and Joy may not be INcompatible (shouldn't it be compatible?), then the discourse marker- BUT makes sense in the second part of the sentence. You must drop either one of the negatives, NOT or IN in the first part of the sentence

 

So grammatically and logically speaking, the sentence should read: Suffering and Joy may be incompatible, but bitterness and joy is.

 

Anyway, it's the teacher in me just clarifying with you."

Well, I got a kick outta it cos' my friend actually bother to read the title! :D Anyway, I replied with the following:

"hahaha! Glad to hear you reply and read my blog, Princess! :D Hope you guys had a fun time yesterday.

well, the title still stands. What I "ish" saying is "Suffering and Joy is compatible, but Bitterness and Joy Isn't". I just chose to go about it the roundabout way to make you all think a bit further. ; )

This is not from my own wisdom, but from someone who shared with me that sometimes in our suffering we can still find the joy of the Lord is with us. However, in our sufferings we have a choice to be either joyful (despite the circumstances) or be bitter (because of the circumstances). Ergo, she used it in the positive expression of "Suffering and Joy is compatible, but Bitterness and Joy Isn't". I just chose to reverse it :D

Well, it's been a good exercise. Hope you are more tickled than riled, madam XXX*! :D have a great day ahead, 'cher!

In His Time (^^ >) a-jack"

*name withheld :p