O Mexico! 4

Jan 1, 2006 @ 19:23 By 4 Comments

We’ve had one other New Year’s Eve in Ixtapa, but last night’s was the best. Somehow, someway, and not at all to my credit but all to Kris’, my kids learned to dance. So, when at 10pm the band, Los Cervantes, started revving it up with some great music, my kids and their spouses joined the throng and danced away. They seem to have beat and rhythm, which are the things that keep me from making a fool of myself on the dance floor. I think dancing is a gift.
The band caught my heart when they played Paul McCartney’s Yesterday.
Kris made it to the midnight hour, but I didn’t, but I did take the distinction of “first on the beach this year in Ixtapa.” (There were some stragglers going home, but I didn’t count them. They were still living in 2005.) Had a good day; long walks; read most of Rebecca’s Revival and a nice chp on Schleiermacher in Schmiechen’s fine book. He tries to resurrect some goodness in Schleiermacher after Barth demolished him.

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Scot McKnight is a recognized authority on the New Testament, early Christianity, and the historical Jesus. McKnight, author of more than thirty books, is the Professor of New Testament at Northern Seminary in Lombard, IL.

  • http://www.arbevere.blogspot.com Allan R. Bevere

    Scot:
    You are right; dancing is a gift. It is a gift I do not have.
    Blessings to you and your family.

  • http://communityofjesus.blogspot.com/ Ted Gossard,

    Yes, my wife Deb is good at dancing. Though I love music and do have a sense of rythm it doesn’t translate for me on the dance floor. Ted

  • http://www.jesustheradicalpastor.blogspot.com John Frye

    Scot,
    My first public dance with Julie was at a wedding reception of a couple I married here in Grand Rapids. My girls, little at the time, kept pestering me, “Daddy, dance with Mommy.” I finally did when the DJ played a slow song. I thought (because of fundamentalist background) that the floor would open up and swallow me whole. Dancing?! Me, the pastor?! Yet, what to my wondering heart should happen? I loved it. I discovered that I had been ripped off all those years. You’ve just got to slow dance with Kris. Who cares if you’re rhythmically challenged? No one!

  • http://communityofjesus.blogspot.com/ Ted Gossard,

    Yeah John, that’s the only way I can really dance with Deb, slowly.