Seeds and Weeds
For Sunday, July 20, 2014 – Matthew 13:24-30, 36-43 “God has planted good seed in the world, children,” my Sunday School teacher would say. “But an enemy has planted weeds. Keep yourself separate from the weeds!” Even then I knew this would be difficult. Out in the pastures and woods on our farm grew so […]
The Soul’s Soil
For Sunday, July 13, 2014 – Matthew 13:1-9, 18-23 Varied is the ground of our being. Much of the soul’s soil is packed hard on paths of worry and hurry as we pace from one cause to another, one appointment to another, one bill to another, our brains plodding the same old anxious grooves. When the seeds […]
Finding Rest
For Sunday, July 6, 2014 – Matthew 11:16-19, 25-30 – Matthew 11:16-19, 25-30 We are rarely satisfied. We tend to be continually busy yet jealously guard our down time. We are both generous and self-serving, overly confident and doubting. We are buried in things and see more that we want. We want to join the dance; we want to be a recluse. We […]
Welcome!
For Sunday, June 29, 2014 – Matthew 10:40-42 I have it on good authority that I might have a few too many Welcome signs around the house. In nearly every room, not to mention the garden and porch — oh joyful multiplicity! — on metal and wood, in calligraphy, made by hand or machine, they sing out: Welcome! Welcome! Yes, this […]