In any list of unusual animals, you are likely to find the sloth. The sloth lives in trees, much of the time hanging from a limb by its four strong feet. The encyclopedia says, "Sloths sleep, eat, and travel through the forest upside down." It's a strange thought ... the idea of living upside down. If we did it, we would certainly see things differently. In a world where flowers grow down and balls fall up, anything seems possible. And, if anything were possible, maybe we would even see the ways in which we get our lives upside down. That was the challenge on that sabbath when Jesus went walking through the cornfields with his disciples.

As they walked along, the disciples picked some of the ears of corn and ate them. On any other day of the week that would have been just fine. Travelers …