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Did you hear what Susan did last night?

After leaving my older brother and his wife's house this morning on my way to Tulsa, on my way to Ft. Smith, on my way to Nashville, on my way to North Carolina, I stopped by a Starbucks in Edmond, OK to do some reading before heading on up to Tulsa. I felt compelled to order something at the store since I was the only one in there, and I kind of felt like everyone was looking at me. Vain, i know, but they were. So i ordered some frozen thing, i don't know what it was, but there was a picture of it and it looked good, and it didn't dissapoint. I proceeded to go over to the comfortable chairs and that is where the learning began...

Lessons for the day:
#1) On a recommendation from one of my pastors in Nashville, I began to read Geerhardus Vos' The Pauline Eschatology. He said that the first three chapters of this book would change my life. Well, I guess I am going to have to wait for a life change because I crawled through 1.5 PAGES and realized that I did not understand anything that was being discussed. If the Greek and Hebrew words weren't enough to lose me, there were plenty of words in another language that I didn't understand- English. Humbled, I put this little jewel back in my bag to save it for a rainy, rainy, more educated day. And I pulled out...

#2) Dispensationalism: Rightly Dividing the People of God by Keith A. Matthison. In order to keep this blog to less than novels length, I will summarize and say this book is very helpful and readable as it discusses the shortcomings of Dispensational theology in view of the Scriptures. However, as I was reading this book, I was often distracted by...

#3) The two middle aged, divorced women sitting in the chairs next to me. I learned several interesting things from them. A. (note the letter for a subpoint, in true outline form) 50yr. old women say the same thing about relationships that my 20yr old students say. A direct quote from the woman who never took her face-engrossing sunglasses off "I just like (boyfriend)Gary because he doesn't play games, he tells me how he feels. He is always real honest." That statement was followed by her talking about how Gary wants her to move with her to the farm(which, agreeably, most 20yr olds don't have) and to live upstairs, because "he says that the upstairs is pretty much its own little apartment. And He says that if I like living with him then I can move in downstairs to his room." Given, I don't know this lady or Gary very well yet, but I am going to go ahead and say- as I would to a 20yr old- that its going to be kinda hard for ol' Gare Bear to stay downstairs when he is supposed to (and visa versa, women aren't above this). If I were still a betting man, I take the odds on the stairs seeing a bit of late night traffic. I also learned that 50yr old women love to gossip. These ladies talked about Susan Somebody till they were red in the face, and I'm telling you, I have some dirt on Susan now. I think that I probably talk about people too much too, but I don't talk about Susan because I don't know who she is.

posted by corbs @ 2:34 PM