The Twenty-Second Sunday After Pentecost - Matthew 22:34-46 - The Rev. Colette Hammesfahr
With streaming TV, we don’t have to watch many commercials anymore. But there’s one commercial from a couple of years ago that I rarely fast-forwarded through because I wanted to watch it again. It starts with three young boys walking into a barber shop. One jumps into the barber’s chair while his friends sit nearby, laughing as the barber cuts his long hair. When the barber is done, the boy looks in the mirror and says it’s not short enough. Take off more. So, the barber shaves his head. The next scene shows the three boys standing on a porch. Two of them are holding up a sign, covering the face of their friend. The sign reads, “Will You Go to Prom With Me?” The camera pans to the girl standing in the doorway, with a shaved head, presumably because she has cancer. The two boys lower the sign, and there stands their friend, with his own head shaved. Suddenly, we understand why he wanted his head shaved. Now, he can't take away her cancer. He can't make the chemotherap...