Some can tell you the temperature, and some can even help keep you cool. Harrison Mayes was God's own messenger. Starting Friday at sundown, Jewish families will celebrate Passover by gathering around the dinner table to tell the story of Moses, Pharaoh and the Ten Plagues during a ritual meal called the Seder. Or the time her daughter was expelled from school for fighting a schoolmate who uttered similar ugly words. In the beginning, there was the father - Sigmund Freud, the father of modern psychology.
Hero worship takes hard work.
At least those words, paraphrased from English poet Robert Browning, were true when I wrote this. Last week I innocently wrote about James Dobson and his arrogant demand that Republicans must complete his agenda or he will have them voted out of office. The Catholic priest who gave Communion to President Clinton in South Africa has said he was more worried about having to preach to the scandal-ridden president about the woman caught in adultery than he was about offering Communion to a Southern Baptist. The mission after supper was to enjoy each other's company and not to worry if a small mountain of plates was sitting in the sink. Those words from the Jewish Hagaddah tell the story of why the annual Passover observance is of utmost importance to Jews.