The Second Sunday After the Epiphany - The Rev. Colette Hammesfahr
Mary Grams loved to work in her garden. Day after day she would go out to pull weeds, till in the soil, plant seeds, and harvest her vegetables. One day in 2004, as she was cleaning up after working in the garden, she noticed that her wedding ring was missing. She believed it probably slipped off while pulling weeds or while working in the soil. She searched everywhere. She searched in the dirt of her garden beds. She went through every nook and cranny of her house. She went through her compost bed. She looked through her shed and all her tools. Mary could not find her wedding ring. Eventually, Mary gave up her search. The ring was gone. Embarrassed that she had lost her ring, she told only her son. So, to avoid her husband noticing, she went and bought a cheaper ring that looked a lot like hers. Her life went on from there. In 2017, thirteen years later, Mary’s daughter-in-law was working in Mary’s garden, pulling up the carrots. She gathered all the carrots and took them in...