As I studied the gospel this week I remembered hearing Pastor Mary Caniff-Kuhn, one of the camp directors at Lutheridge, tell a story that she calls “Grandmother’s Love.”
It’s her own version of a story that is a folktale that’s told all around the world, and I’d like to tell it to you.
Here is video of Pastor Mary telling her story; her telling begins at 16:02.
Here’s the Good News: we have a God who loves us more than any grandmother and that is a lot of love.
Sometimes we think we need a lot of stuff to tell the story of God’s love; we need to have special words or training, beautiful churches and stained glass windows, but when it comes right down to it, all we need is the story.
When the crowds ran ahead of Jesus and the disciples, that’s all they had —
stories of teaching and healing that had happened when the disciples were sent out.
stories of a divine love that is present in the smallest and most ordinary parts of our lives.
stories that helped them feel God’s love.
Thanks be to God.
Amen.
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