1/22/2006

Beyond Logic

It's funny to me how often Grandpa, whose cognitive skills don't work quite right, always manages to point out our family's absurdities. He knows when things don't make sense a lot more than we give him credit for.

Today Mom was telling me about how she came to the Lord.
"I knew about God, but I wasn't born again."

Grandpa, who is always listening, even though we forget he's there, piped in.
"How can someone be born again?" he asked. "That doesn't make sense."

Someone else asked that question once. THe only response I could give was one that went beyond my reasoning abilities. "The wind blows where it wishes, and you hear the sound of it, but cannot tell where it comes from or where it is going. So is everyone who is born of the Spirit."

Some things are on the other side of logic...

Like our conversation last night. I was playing Ella Fitzgerald, (trying to figure out WHAT IS THE DEAL with scat singing), and Grandpa kept insisting that it was me singing.
"That's you!"
"No it's not! I can't scat like that!"
"Yes it is. It sounds just like you!"
:) Um...ok, Gramps.
I'll take that kind of logic any day ;).

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

pharyngeal fricatives! i tend to side with your grandpa concerning your scoobeedoobeedoos.