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By Terrance Klein
Jan 12 2023
A Homily for the Second Sunday in Ordinary Time
Readings: Isaiah 49:3, 5-6 1 Corinthians 1:1-3 John 1:29-34
We normally narrate a life story from beginning to end, from birth to death, but for our purposes we should take up Debbie’s story on the day that everything turned. Young Debbie had been married just eight years and her baby son was only a few months old when a car ran a traffic light and collided straight into her side of the vehicle.
Debbie would have died that day in central Kansas, but a Denver emergency room physician, far from home, happened upon the accident. He saved her life on the side of the road, by performing an emergency tracheotomy.
Now, let’s go back to the beginning of Debbie’s life. She was one of four small-town sisters, all of them musically gifted. Debbie could play anything on the piano by ear. Bright and effervescent, she led her sisters in a musical ensemble that toured Kansas in the sixties. They were called “The Teen Timers and Debbie.”
Debbie’s beauty and personality had served up the world to her. Graduating from high school, the hometown cheerleader went off to study at the University of Kansas before deciding that cosmetology should be her career.
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