Doris shook her head and walked away. I've laughed at this story for years. Dear, sweet Dwayne, brilliant but baffled by such simple things. Every August 12 I think of him. I do something different that day . . .
Days are important.
I anticipate them. I'm lookinig forward to the day my friends come for Thanksgiving, to the next time I'll see my brother in Florida. And I can never quite wait for Christmas. The word days appears more than five hundred times in Scripture, and the Mosaic Law prescribed feast days when the congregation was to celebrate by dancing, singing, resting from labor, and giving praise to God. These were occasions of joy and gladness.