MEMORIES AND RECORDS
I got an email yesterday from an old friend telling me she had just published a book about her career as a radio disc jockey in Chicago.* I’m a different person now than the shy guy who ran a small fan club for her years ago, writing an occasional newsletter, going to her personal appearances, and trying to catch every show and every entertaining word she broadcast. I’m sure she’s a different person now too, for I know she has since become an accomplished portrait painter and also has some real estate interests.
I got to thinking how, just as she has compiled an account of her career some years after it unfolded, so too Jesus’ “career” was only recorded decades after the years of His ministry. To have the events and their significance written down in autobiography or Scripture, some years after they transpired lends a kind of larger than life ‘That Was Then, This Is Now’ perspective to them. My friend’s book, published in 2009, has a feature not available to the Evangelists — she has crammed it with pictures. I’m not sure pictures from Jesus’ time would enhance the New Testament.
*Top Rock Girly Jock by Connie Szerszen
