The B Stands Alone (edited)

I went to my first Bible study in a long time yesterday morning, and yesterday evening I attended our first ladies-night Flock (a small group within our church that fosters fellowship and deeper study). It was a day of meeting other Christian women in our church ~ something that I've been missing since we moved here just over a year ago.

On the way home as I was pondering all their names (I used to be so good at remembering names; that talent seems to have waned over the past few years), I remembered how when I was a kid I used to love to watch Romper Room. Did you? Do you remember the part at the end when the teacher would look through the Magic Mirror? I always waited expectantly for her to say my name ~ and I don't recall she ever did.

So on the way home, I pondered all women I'd met, and tried to connect them in my brain with their faces. I met:

• Jan, and
• Judith, and
• Joanna.
• The childcare workers were Jackie and Julie.
• I also met Joan;
• Jill, and
• Judy, and
• Jen, and
• Jessica couldn't make it, but there was
• another Jan - no kidding about all the J's. There was a
• Mary, and Monica,
• Tracy, and another Tracy,

and, as far as I can see, I was the only B.