I recently re-read a old story about a grandmother who was prayerfully completing her last will as she approached life’s end. Some of her descendants would inherit cars or money or favored furniture or jewelry. But to one grandson, who had struggled with addiction and long rebelled against God and the family, she gave only a Bible. He, not walking with the Lord then, was angry, justified anew in his withdrawal from the family circle. It was only years later, paging through the unused Bible, that he found his treasure tucked in her favorite passage where the ribbon fell: title deed to her favored home in the mountains, one she knew he loved to visit as a child. In the version of the story I read, the passage was this week’s passage: the parable of the prodigal son in Luke 15. 

Ever find a forgotten treasure in a familiar place, a dresser drawer, a coat pocket, a file folder? In this well-known passage there are several. Come with us to delight in forgotten treasures Sunday at 10!