“Karen’s Notes!
Insights from a Glory-Bound Lady”

Selected Notes
Volume 3 Number 7 “You Have to Smile at Her Mathematical Mind!”

February 12th, 2020

I love how the Lord put Karen and me together. Though we knew that we both loved the Lord, we soon discovered when we started dating that we were opposites in many ways. She hated public speaking, and I loved it. She disliked history, and I took four history electives in my senior year of high school. She was a tremendous athlete, and I…well, you already know the rest of that story! She didn’t like to write essays, and I loved writing. And finally, she was brilliant in the various math classes, and I am terrible in math. We complemented each other’s strengths and weaknesses in so many ways.

So today I picked up her Bible and just held it and asked the Lord to give me something from her Bible that I could use in Karen’s Notes for today. It naturally opened to a little book marker that our Jeffrey had made for her some thirty-three years ago for Mother’s Day. She had placed it in John 13. Let me share the verse and then the extremely brief note she wrote in the tiny margin of her Bible. You’ll see her love for math and her love for the Lord.

“Now before the feast of the Passover, when Jesus knew that His hour was come
that He should depart out of this world unto the Father, having loved His own which were in the world, He loved them unto the end.”

Karen wrote: (nth degree).

Michael’s observation: Today I read her note, and it didn’t make me cry for once! In fact, it made me smile. This is the lady I quickly grew to love. She was brief in her comments, thrilled with the Lord, and absolutely loved math. I will be honest with you. I knew “nth degree” was huge, but I stopped and wondered, “What exactly does it mean and why would she write this next to ‘He loved them unto the end’”? I went to dictionary.com and here is what it says.

To the nth degree: “To the utmost. This expression comes from mathematics where to the nth degree means to any required power (n standing for number). It was first recorded in 1852.”

Think of that. The Lord Jesus loves us, as Karen puts it, “to the nth degree”! I love that lady and thank the Lord for His great love for us!