Memorabilia

A friend went to a garage sale and bought a signed softball for fifty-cents. She then gifted me with the collector item because my signature was on the ball as one who played in the local 1988 All Star Game. I had to laugh…the 30-year-old softball was in much better condition than those of us who signed the ball. The signatures brought back memories and it occurs to me that biblical genealogy, as dry as it sometimes seems, is more than a historical record, it is a walk down memory lane. “A record of the genealogy of Jesus Christ the son of David, the son of Abraham: Abraham was the father of Isaac, Isaac the father of Jacob, Jacob the father of Judah and his brothers…” (Matt 1:1-2 NIV).