sermons and notes posted on this blog are not necessarily what came out of my mouth during the services,
but they'll offer a sense my dance with the Holy Spirit while preparing to preach

Sunday, July 20, 2014

the good, the bad, and our patience and compassionate God

Good and bad seeds are thrown our way.  
Either and both will grow in our hearts if we let them in. 
The seeds that thrive are the ones to which we give most attention.  

Discerning weeds from wheat as they sprout up in our own hearts and become tangled in our own ways of being requires glasses of grace offered to us with patience and compassion by God’s Spirit.  

However, when any of us with haste presume to weed the larger field ourselves, there’s great risk of error from hubris and myopia.  

At the end of all our days, have faith that God will sort out the harvest justly, gathering what is good and throwing the waste to the fire. 

“Let anyone with ears listen!” 

[ref: Matt 13:24-30, 36-43 and RCL reading for Proper 11, Year A]


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