Faith
The search for meaning, purpose, and relationship. Our need for love compels us to seek it out, and when we find it, share it.
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This week’s gospel offers a similar teaching that sends us in a totally different direction: that we shouldn’t worry about the seed or soil.
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Some of Jesus’s most important teachings come in recognizable examples such as weeds and wheat. Distinctions which can also distort.
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The parable of the sower can feel like perfectionism: Goldilocks meets self-help. It isn’t about making ourselves ideal. It’s about becoming whole.
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Jesus creates distance to amplify and protect. This shouldn’t lead us to think Jesus is playing it safe, but that he has something to say.
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Jesus sounds off on the people who aren’t getting with the program. Is this like our own complaints, or is it something else?
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We have such a high view of wisdom — it seems morally wrong for God to hide the truth from anyone — that maybe we miss the obvious truth.