17. Sowing Seed

We have three different short little parables to look at today, all concerned with seed and its sowing. They are simple parables, deceptively simple, for within them are deep truths we are asked to absorb. And sometimes, those very simple truths can be very challenging. We would rather go to more complicated scriptures.  

Ah, Jesus, he lays things out so simply so we can use our simple minds to try and understand very big ideas about the nature of the kingdom of God. And the kingdom of God is what we are a part of bringing into existence with many others, inside our faith and outside it. But we have to do our part. And our part includes learning from Jesus the essential elements of that very real kingdom. 

Let nothing disturb you. Let nothing frighten you. All things pass. God does not change. Patience achieves everything. Whoever has God lacks nothing. God alone suffices.

Christ has no body now on earth but yours; no hands, not fee on Earth but yours.

Yours are the eyes through which the compassion of Christ looks out on the world. Yours are the feet with which He is to go about doing good. Yours are the hands with which He is to bless His people.

Christ has no body now on Earth but yours.

— St. Teresa of Avila