Day 71..."Year of Jubilee, Gray Hair, Tradition!"

Out of the detailed writings of rituals and sacrifices...bursts a chapter about JUBILEE! Wow. What a change of pace! Land shall rest. Debts forgiven. The poor should be treated well. Is this Leviticus? Cokesbury is 50 in 2007. Jubilee might fit in somewhere with the theme. Learning is a lifetime endeavor according to the Psalmist..."O God, from my youth you have taught me,and I still proclaim your wondrous deeds. So even to old age and gray hairs." There has to be some perks to gray hair! I noticed something in Mark I had not seen before... "You leave the commandment of God and hold to the tradition of men." Is there any tradition we hold on to more than God's commandments. I am reminded of the woman that always cut the end of a ham before she cooked. One of her daughters saw this and did the same. Years later, her daughter did the same...and so on. Many generations later the daughter asked the mother
"why" and she did not know. It turned out the pan was too short! Have we any traditions that are meaningless!