Parable
Sumptuous displays and tasting stations await attendees of the gourmet trade food show. Brie, gouda, fancy cakes, pureed fruit from the middle east, the finest olives, an array of British and German sausages, etc. A taster’s delight. The evening was at last over and the gourmands headed home.
Then a new task began. Volunteers took what had not been eaten and packed in keeping with food safety standards. It was as if they were moving a high rent delicatessen. The trucks rolled and fanned out to spots across the city. And that next day, in a series of soup kitchens, the homeless, the lost, the mentally ill, the working poor, the undocumented, had a regal lunch, a global smorgasbord. We can so easily imagine the messianic rabbi smiling in the corner…
In every time, in our time, parables of the kingdom and of grace are meant to enthrall, disturb, upend…
+GRS
