Bits and Pieces

I found "Hermans Hermits on the Danny Kaye Show" the other day. It featured kids dancing in front of "Herman" as he sang. Did people ever really dance like that? Unbelievably graceless and ugly...I knew as a teen I couldn't dance, but I now wonder whether anyone could!...Grammie had a cousin, Howard Hamilton, who was the General manager of the Montreal Forum. So when the group played there, he got Aunt Laura and I, plus one of Aunt Laura's friend, tickets to see them. We spent hours hand-lettering signs telling the group we loved them, and - forgot them at home. Just as well!..As usual, Bapa was commandeered to drive us there - which he did with good grace. A funny little memory...

I was telling Dad this morning about Nick's new independence-not allowing his parents to show him physical affection while in public. Dad responded by saying how, when he and Grandma visited New York City together when Dad was a teen, he wouldn't even walk with her, but stayed several paces behind. We began to crack up as we pictured it...Beautiful, stylish Grandma walking alone while her pimply, overweight, awkward son stayed behind so as not to be seen with her! Ha! HA! Ha! If teens only saw themselves objectively! But good that they don't. How many would get through those years?

I have been reading Numbers in the OT. Remember the daughters of Zelophehad - no brothers and their father died, so they petitioned to be allowed to inherit their fathers' land? That right was granted them, and they could "marry whom they thought best", as long as they chose within the clan - in order to safeguard the land to their father's tribe...Corinthian widows also could marry whoever they wanted as long as he was "in the Lord"...I have been reading several books about women in Muslim countries lately, and am amazed how much freedom the true God has given to women. SO glad I am a Christian!

In the NT, am about to begin Romans with my new ESV with study notes. Am excited - my favorite book of the Bible...Here are a couple of introductory sentences from my Bible..."All the reformers saw Romans as the God-given key to understanding all Scripture...From the vantage point given by Romans, the whole landscape of the Bible is open to view, and the relation of the parts to the whole becomes plain..." Amen! "If you ain't Paul-ine, you ain't (properly) Christ-ine!"