My dad loved to garden and among his very favorite things to grow were turnips. I don’t know if he really liked turnips as a food, but I know he liked to talk about them. He consulted the Farmer’s Almanac on when to plant them. He took great pride in growing them, and he was always trying to pawn them off on people.
As a child I did not care for turnips as a food. I have a childhood memory of turnips being slipped in with the fried potatoes as a means of disguising and getting us Cash kids to eat them. Yuck – what a way to ruin a good batch of fried potatoes! Continue reading
In Matthew 13:44-46 Jesus shares twin word pictures to describe the value of the Kingdom of God (Kingdom of Heaven). We might call these particular parables “value images” as Jesus tells us that living “a kingdom of God way of life” is like a tenet farmer finding a treasure hidden in a field, or a merchant discovering a pearl of great price. In each situation the finder of these objects is so overtaken by them that he sells all he owns in order to have them. It’s this “all in” behavior that gives me pause with the parables, causing me to ask, “What do we so value in life that makes us willing to cash in everything else?” 
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