Third Sunday in Lent, March 23, 2025

Holy Hunger

There is an old joke that you may have heard. In Sunday School one day the teacher was trying to teach students about God, and how the Jewish people would not say God’s name when reading scriptures. In fact, she said, God really didn’t have a name, just a title “Yahweh” which means in Hebrew, “I AM.” A young girl held up her hand. She was perplexed. She said, “I thought God had two names—maybe one is just a nickname, but God has two names.” The teacher now looked perplexed. “What do you mean?” she asked. “Well,” the little girl explained, “Don’t we say, Our Father who art in Heaven, Harold be thy name?” And his nickname must be “Andy” because in the hymn we sang last week it says “Andy walked with me, Andy talked with me!”
That word hallowed can trip us up every time! . . .

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© Copyright 2025 by the Rev. Alison Andrea Young

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