Baba Marta

Children’s Sermon

8 March 2026

Good morning. How are we doing? Enjoying the weather?

I’ve got a little fairytale for you this morning. In European folklore, there’s a character called Baba Marta. Ever hear of her? She’s supposed to represent the month of March. And just like March, she can be pretty unpredictable.

Sometimes Baba Marta seems stooped and old, sometimes young and fair. She might be very kind when she meets you, generous and giving. Or she might be kind of crabby, if not outright cruel. You never quite know what you’re going to get with her.

They say that when Baba Marta starts her spring cleaning, she likes to shake out her bedsheets from the window of her house—and when she does, snow falls on all the land around. If you ever read the Brothers Grimm, you’ll meet her as Frau Holle.

March is like that: warm and sunny one moment, cold and wet the next; as though spring were trying to get here, but still has to argue with winter. Mother Nature is at once both beautiful and scary.

And that’s also how some people think about God. In one story, they say, God is angry and judgmental. In another He’s compassionate and forgiving. And we might start to wonder, “Well, which God are we going to get on any given day? The just God, or the gracious God?”

But that’s a mistake. God isn’t like that at all. God is not Baba Marta. God is not Mother Nature. God is Jesus. And Jesus always loves us. Sometimes He says things that we might find hard to swallow, but He’s only ever working for our good.

St Paul told us today that Jesus saved us even while we were yet His enemies, even when we nailed Him to a Cross. All of that couldn’t stop Him from loving us. How much more, then, Paul asks, will we be saved now by His life, now that He has risen from the dead?

Life is full of all sorts of changes, of wonderful things and terrible. Don’t be afraid. God never changes. God is always God. God is always good. God is always love. And in Jesus, God will never let you go.

Sound good? Okay. Let’s pray.