Lectionary Thoughts – 10th Sunday after Pentecost
The texts for this week can be found here.
The first time I met my college girlfriend’s parents was during the harvest. They lived on a farm an hour north of Omaha, NE, and I remember driving along the dirt roads towards the farm, watching the lights of the combines in the fields moving along well after 10 at night. The next morning, as I got the tour of the farm, I saw the results of the harvest. Inside the machine shed, where all the equipment should be stored, was instead huge piles of corn.
“Why is all this corn here, and not in the silos?” I asked.
“Oh, the silos are full, the machine shed is full, and next we’re going to put it outside under tarps,” was the reply.
You see, the price of corn was low that fall, so low that many farmers were not taking their harvests to the market, hoping to wait for a price increase. The harvest was so abundant that year, they were running out of places to store it.
When I read the Luke passage for this week, the Parable of the Rich Fool as it is traditionally known, I thought of this story. I am supply preaching at a church I’ve never been to before, so I’m not totally sure where my sermon is going at this point in the week, but it might just have that illustration.
What are you thinking about with the texts this week?
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