I had decided to read again the Gospels in the New Testament— Matthew, Mark, Luke, John. I wanted to see what single idea or truth would stand out on that particular day. When we read the Bible, depending on the circumstances and the challenges we're at that time thinking about and working our way through, different things make a greater impression.
After I'd spent some time reading, the single idea that stood out most strongly was how Christ Jesus worked to unlimit people's concept of God as unfailing Love. Parables, healings, and conversations all seemed aimed at saying to people, "Look, my friend. God, who is infinite Love, is Love so great that you have little concept of how great it is, but I will try to explain through a story." Or, "If you understand what these healings mean, you see that no one is beyond the reach and power of divine Love. So don't despair. Your heavenly Father is perfect Love, and He'll reach you—or that loved one you worry for, or that enemy who you think is beyond redemption, or whoever seems outside this infinite, healing Love."
I learned a simple story that was told by a father to his son, who at that time was worried over one of his own adult children—the father's grandchild. The grandchild was going through challenges in his life, and his father was heartsick. The worried man went to his father's home late one evening, for he felt at that moment he had nowhere else to turn. Prior to this time the man's father had seemed very quiet, often reticent in his outward expressions of his own deep religious feeling. But this night was different. When the son began to weep, the father asked him, "Tell me, in comparison to a person, in comparison let's say to you, how much is this orange worth?"
