[Mrs. Don-o]

OK, I think I see what the problem is here. It's failing to make a distinction between bowing in adoration, and all the other kinds of bowing.

It would be as if a fellow got on his knees in the old-fashioned way to propose marriage and to present his beloved with an engagement ring, and she were to say, "Eeek! No, no, this is blasphemy. I am not God!"

A comical scenario, of course, but it's just as i said above: a failure to recognize the difference between one kind of bowing and another.

This non-comprehension probably afflcts all of us more and more as the last customary traces of ceremony decay and disappear. Fellows don't kneel to their intended-fiancees anymore. Kissing of hands is not done. No child knows what is a "bow" or a "curtsey". People bring mounds of Teddy bears and dilly mylar balloons to the mortuarty to honor (?) deceased, esp. kids, but no one (any more) kneels at the coffin or bows to the dear remains of the deceased.

For many people, I suspect, about the only place you see solemn customary behavior anymore is at a military funeral.

Know what I mean? I note that because I am part of a (non-denominational) prayer team at the VA Hospital at Mountain Home, TN.

[TRY ONE]

Yes, I think that may have solved it.
Good analogy of the fellow proposing marriage.

Thanks

[TRY ONE]

Thanks for sharing.

I live in Houston, TX and am a Deacon at Second Baptist Church. I teach Bible studies at church and sometime to the residents at the MD Anderson Cancer Center for people who come from all over the world for treatment.

I will pray for you on the prayer team at the VA Hospital at Mountain Home, TN.

By the way, I was born in Asheville, N.C.

Thanks,

Tom