{"id":24517,"date":"2025-11-24T10:28:11","date_gmt":"2025-11-24T18:28:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/greaternw.org\/news\/?p=24517"},"modified":"2025-11-24T10:30:36","modified_gmt":"2025-11-24T18:30:36","slug":"undeserved-love-at-the-thanksgiving-table","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/greaternw.org\/news\/undeserved-love-at-the-thanksgiving-table\/","title":{"rendered":"Undeserved love at the Thanksgiving Table"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">By Rev. Paul Graves<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"dropcapp3\">On Thanksgiving Day, will you ring a family member\u2019s doorbell with some dis-ease in your heart? Or invite someone into your home with that same dis-ease? Or come to a community meal, wondering how welcome you will be there?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"dropcapp\">Perhaps you plan to avoid discussing any political or religious topics that might offend someone else at the table. Or will you bring bravado along with the green bean casserole?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"dropcapp\">A more central question might be: <em>Will I offer, and be offered, undeserved love at the Thanksgiving table?<\/em> We live in such a toxically divided nation for so many reasons. Not the least of which is a communication pattern that gives person A some twisted right to rudely dismiss person B if A disagrees with anything \u201cunworthy\u201d said by B.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"dropcapp\">Stomach acid can begin before the table is even set. Don\u2019t let that be your experience! Consider the power of <em>undeserved love<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"dropcapp\">To \u201cdeserve\u201d anything is connected to \u201cworth\u201d or \u201cbeing worthy\u201d. There are always conditions of one kind or another when \u201cworthiness\u201d is in our minds and\/or hearts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"dropcapp\">But God\u2019s Radical Hospitality, particularly embodied in Jesus, turns deserved love upside down! Undeserved love is the essence of God\u2019s passion for all of creation, including humans. That isn\u2019t easy for us to give \u2013 or receive \u2013 on any day, even a day of Thanksgiving.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"dropcapp\">Allow yourself some time for reflection as you prepare to sit at the table you find on Thursday. Two stories from the Gospels, one a Jesus story and the other a Jesus parable (Matt 20:1\u201416). And then Jonah.<br>Each story pushes us to consider \u201cundeserved love\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"dropcapp\">John 8:1-11 tells the infamous story of a woman caught in adultery. Let\u2019s skip right to the undeserved love part. We usually focus on Jesus\u2019 gracious response to the woman (my paraphrase): \u201cNeither do I condemn you. Let God\u2019s undeserved love for you strengthen you so you can begin a new life.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"dropcapp\">What we often skip over is Jesus\u2019 response to the men with stones in their hands. His love for them is also undeserved, and subversively stated &nbsp;(again, my paraphrase): \u201cLet your own human mistakes shame you into realizing she deserves an undeserved second chance. You, too, deserve the same.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"dropcapp\">The long parable in Matthew 20:1-16 weaves a clever story of workers in a vineyard who are paid the same wage by the landowner, regardless of how many hours they worked. Even the man who worked only one hour benefited from the owner\u2019s full-wage generosity. But the other workers were angry, raging against that generosity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"dropcapp\">Rightly so, especially if you fully believe in some form of \u201cgetting what you deserve.\u201d So, I invite you to struggle \u2013 even a little bit \u2013 with the notion that you might not really be in charge of what you\/we deserve.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"dropcapp\">If the landowner (or if the landowner symbolizes God for you) wants to be generous, why are we angry at how he spends his money? Why is it important that we get angry at God\u2019s graciousness toward \u201cthe undeserving\u201d?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"dropcapp\">Or consider Jonah\u2019s outrage at God after Jonah preached repentance to the people of Nineveh \u2013 and they turned their lives around as a result. God\u2019s undeserved love of those Ninevites was a last straw for Jonah!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"dropcapp\">Bring these wonderings to the Thanksgiving table. In your conversations with tablemates, how will you let your heart be shaped so undeserved love is somehow offered to a stubborn relative? How will you let your heart be shaped by someone who rejects his own chance to show you undeserved love?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"dropcapp\">I hope your heart is filled with undeserved gratitude and love that exceeds the food that feeds your body.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p><em><strong>The Rev. Paul Graves<\/strong>&nbsp;is a retired elder member of the Pacific Northwest Conference of The United Methodist&nbsp;Church.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As Thanksgiving gatherings bring together people with anxieties, divisions, and unspoken tensions, Rev. Paul Graves invites us to consider the transformative power of undeserved love. 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