November 9, 2025 ANNUAL MEETING SUNDAY

“St. Ives” A Reflection on Scripture

“St. Ives” A Reflection on Luke 20:27-38 by the Rev. Alison Andrea Young shared on November 9, 2025 at the First Congregational UCC of Onekama, Michigan.

As I was going to St. Ives, I met a man with seven wives. Each wife had seven sacks, each sack had seven cats, each cat had seven kits: kits, cats, sacks, and wives. How many were going to St. Ives? (PAUSE)

“There were seven brothers; the first married, and died childless; then- the second and the third married her, and so in the same way all seven died childless. Finally the woman also died. In the resurrection therefore, whose wife will the woman be?” Luke 20:29-33b

Is it any coincidence that this traditional nursery rhyme and our scripture
lesson this morning sound like twins? . . .