Three Grandmothers?

1 Corinthians 1:25 (ASV)
Because the foolishness of God is wiser than men; and the weakness of God is stronger than men.

My cousin's grandmother was truly a wonderful and loving woman.

We often saw her at family functions and occasionally we made the seventeen mile trip just to visit with her.

When I was still very young, I heard my parents refer to her as "Grandma" for the sake of my cousin. Well, it only seemed proper for me to do the same.

I am certain that my parents and other relatives found this cute and fortunately for me, my cousin never expressed any jealousy in this matter.

Although this dear lady was not my grandmother, I believe she genuinely liked the idea that I had adopted her as another grandmother.

Each year when my birthday or Christmas would come around I always received a gift from this dear lady along with a card which she signed "With Love, Grandma".

Everything was fine until that fateful day when we began studying plurals in grade school.

The plural of shoe is shoes, the plural of bird is birds, and so on.

"What is the plural of grandmother?", the teacher asked.

"Grandmothers," we replied.

"How many grandmothers do you have?", she asked one of my classmates.

"Two," he replied.

"Correct," she said.

I raised my hand.

"Yes, Jim, what is it?", she asked.

"I have three grandmothers," I stated confidently.

For reasons unknown to me at the time, everybody laughed.

"No, Jim. You cannot have three grandmothers," she said. She then offered a very logical explanation as to why it simply did not make sense for me to have a third grandmother.

"Do you understand?", she asked.

"Yes, Ma'am," I replied (I just wanted us to move on).

I really was unable to focus on the rest of the lesson.

My mind was preoccupied with why it did not make sense for me to have this loving woman as a third grandmother.

"I don't care if this does not make sense to anyone else," I concluded. "After all, I have her birthday and Christmas cards to me that prove it!"

That was many years ago, but I wonder... is my situation all that different today?

If someone who does not believe in God were to ask me how many fathers I have, my answer would not make any sense to them either.

"Two," I would reply.

Perhaps they would laugh or shake their heads disapprovingly.

They might even try to explain that it Is impossible for me to have two fathers and that believing so simply does not make any sense.

Yet, I do have two fathers.

One was my earthly father.

The other is my Heavenly Father.

I don't care if this does not make sense to anyone else. After all, I have the book He wrote for me to prove it!

1 Corinthians 1:21 (ASV) - For seeing that in the wisdom of God the world through its wisdom knew not God, it was God's good pleasure through the foolishness of the preaching to save them that believe.


Blessings,
Jim Pokorny
The Other Brother Jim
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