“Unmeasurable Love”
By:
Karen Frantz
It was the
first week of school, and Jenny was really quite happy with how things were
going. She really liked her teacher, Ms.
Lyons, and she had made friends with two other girls that she liked, and got
along with really well. So it looked
like it was shaping up to be a good year for her.
On the third
day of school, Ms. Lyons, told Jenny’s class to take out their rulers. When everyone had their rulers out, she begin
to teach them how to use them. Then she
offered everyone a challenge. They were
to go home and take their rulers and measure things. They were to write down the item, and how
wide, and how long the item was. The
person with the most items would win a prize, and the person who had measured
the most unusual item would win a prize too.
Well, this
excited Jenny, when she got home she went right to work measuring all kind of
things. She was working hard, trying to
do it just right, and then she stopped and realized that she needed to find
something unusual. She looked and looked
inside, then went outside. Living in the
country, you would think that it would be easy to find something unusual.
She looked and looked, then she found it. It was an old, abandoned well, the sides of
the well were lined with OLD bricks, those bricks were over a hundred years
old, and Jenny thought, if she could measure just one of those bricks, she
could win one of the prizes.
She had
forgotten that her Dad had placed a big, heavy, piece of wood on top of the old
well, and had posted warning signs all around it. Now if she could just move the big, heavy
piece of wood off a little, she could measure at least one of the bricks. So she put her notebook, pencil and ruler
down on the ground, beside the well.
Then she
began to push and shove, push and shove with ALL her might, when finally, she
managed to get an opening. She picked up
her ruler, notebook and pencil, when her ruler slipped from her fingers and she
leaned over trying to catch it, but she lost her balance, and down, down, down
she fell into the dark, damp, cold, smelly well, but somehow, there was a bed
of soggy old leaves on the bottom, and that was where Jenny landed. However, her wrist hurt badly, and she began
to cry a little, then she stopped and started yelling for HELP!
After what
seemed like forever, Jenny noticed light flickering, in the darkness of the old
well, it was from some flashlights, then she heard her Dad yelling, “Jenny, are you ok?” “Yeah, Dad, I think I hurt my wrist.” Jenny cried.
“Ok, dear, we are going to get a ladder and we’ll have you out of there
real soon!” Her Dad said, in a
comforting tone.
Well, they
did get Jenny out of the well, without any problems. And even though she didn’t get to measure the
brick, Ms. Lyons said that she deserved a prize for ALL of her hard work. And her Dad had the old well filled in the
next day.
“You know
Jenny there are some things you can’t measure, like the air and the sky, and we
can’t measure God’s love, either. The
Bible tells us that God is LOVE and NO ONE has ever seen God, unless they have
seen Jesus, because God is a SPIRIT. And
we have NO way of measuring LOVE, because we can’t see it. We can ONLY feel it and see the effects of
it. And we feel God’s LOVE for us, when we
give our heart to Him.” Her Mom
said. Jenny smiled and said, “Thank you
God, for your UNMEASURABLE LOVE!”
