Matthew 13:24-43
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The first problem is that we cast the Bible as prescriptive. The second is that we cast ourselves with the very same objectification.
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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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We have a tendency to focus on the negative. Thinking it’s what we’re supposed to do. It’s actually a distraction.
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Jesus gives us a parable that compels us in ways that make us feel and think. What we choose to do with that is telling.
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The greatest challenge with being good is often that we don’t know what to do with our sense of evil; and when that is us.
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Jesus’s parable of the weeds among the wheat challenges us to see evil in the desire to pluck weeds when we know it’ll kill the wheat.