God’s love was revealed among us in this way: God sent his only Son into the world so that we might live through him. In this is love, not that we loved God but that he loved us and sent his Son to be the atoning sacrifice for our sins.
(1 John 4.9-10
NRSV)
In 1933 the Morgan family, a group of itinerant revivalists,
camped on the town square in Murphy, North Carolina. They hung
their wash from the Confederate monument. They were asked to
leave, and pleading poverty, asked permission to hold one more
service. At that service, a lovely girl, with unwashed blonde
hair, sang three lines of a song. In the congregation sat John
Jacob Niles, a collector of mountain folk songs. After the
service he gave her twenty-five cents to sing the song again. He
did this three more times but each time got only the same three
lines. She didn't know where she got them, and Niles never found
the source, but he enlarged on those three lines and gave the
world that lovely Christmas song, "I wonder as I wander out under
the sky. Why Jesus the Savior did come forth for to die." All of
us must wonder what there is about "poor ornery creatures like
you and like I" that could inspire such love. It must be that his
very nature is love. Said Jesus, "To this end was I born and for
this purpose came I into the world."
Lord Jesus, thank you for sharing God’s love. Amen.
Ron Newhouse
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