“Remember” is found in our pew Bible 159 times, whereas “Grace” is found only 116. Maybe “remember” is in there more because remembering instances of God’s grace in the past help prepare us to receive God’s grace now and in the future.
I thought of this the other night at Music in the Park. Norville Dollar invited a lady from the audience to come up and sing a song. I didn’t catch the lady’s name, but she was an entertainer herself and did a good job singing the old Patti Page song, “Tennessee Waltz.”
What was the first song you remember singing? One of the first one I remember singing as a child was “Tennessee Waltz.” I sang along with Patti Page on the radio. A couple of years later I liked another of her songs even better, “How Much is That Doggie in the Window.”
Patti Page was the “Singing Rage” in the 1950s. Even when music changed in the sixties and seventies and eighties she kept on singing.
Five or so years ago I was recording a church ad at a radio station in Albuquerque. As I was walking out, I held the door open for a lady who was coming in the station. I didn’t think anything about it until a few minutes later when I tuned in to that same radio station on my way back to the church. I had held the door open for Patti Page!
She was doing a concert in the Santa Fe area, and the station asked her to drop by for an interview. She was in her late seventies at the time. If I had “remembered” to look at the programming log on the studio wall, I would have known she was coming in and could have thanked her for the “Waltz.” I might have even asked her if she had any free tickets to her concert. -DJ
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