"Unmeasurable Love"

“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!”