"If You Knew Susie..." - Mark 10:32-45 - (March 17, 2024 - LENT 5)

Grace Alone Online

Back in 1925, Eddie Cantor took the nation by storm with his roaring-twenties hit: “If you knew Susie, like I know Susie, oh, oh, oh what a gal!” Everyone wanted to know Susie, and who wouldn’t. She was lively, fun, a party girl. She was the center of attention when she walked into the room. This was the 1920s – a decade of extravagance, free and wild living, and she was wild. Whatever it was that Susie had, it was working for her. She smiled when she was supposed to, posed for the camera at every opportunity. She did all the right things at the right time to get noticed in all the right ways. Every girl wanted to be like Susie: popular, fun, energetic. Who wouldn’t?

But…after the last kiss at the door and her suitor drove away. Susie probably entered an empty apartment, turned on her bedroom light, peeled off her flapper fringe party dress, her eyelashes. She then sat at her vanity, took her cold cream from the top drawer, and began removing the makeup from her face.