17 June 2012 Ezequiel 17:22-24 | Salmo 91 | 2
Corintios 5:6-10 | + Marcos 4:26-34
[_01_] This is how it is with the Kingdom of
God. A man scattered seed on the ground… (in the earth). He went to sleep….. it grew while he was
sleeping. The seed grows of itself, though he knows not how.
( “El reino de Dios se
parece a un hombre que echa simiente en la tierra. Él duerme de noche y se
levanta de mañana; la semilla germina y va creciendo, sin que él sepa como.”)
He knows not how … agriculture,
the environment, science …work? Really?
Observing this man, would we
say that he is really and completely clueless, in the dark about how his wheat,
corn, grapes are developing?
Or, might we simply say that
the mean is simply not able to direct and control that growth by his own power.
Of his own, the man can dig,
plant, provide some water, but he also relies on the sun to shine and the rain
to fall, phenomena outside of his personal climate control settings.
In the darkness, in the
recesses, underneath the soil, the earth, the roots and plants generate, grow
…and live invisibly. They have a hidden life.
[_02_] This
Sunday is Father´s Day. And, as we know, fathers and
mothers plant and prepare their children …. In fact, they often do this
while we were sleeping and resting. Our fathers and mothers went to bed later
and awoke earlier so that we can could rest.
Our parents – themselves – made
investments…
[_03_] Also, recognizing that we – as children –
are always moving closer to a time of harvest, whether towards the harvest of
graduation, the harvest of a marriage and family, the harvest of our life´s
calling, our life´s career… parents have also tried to prepare us, to train us.
Nevertheless, our parents
cannot control the climate of sun and rainfall, of success and struggle for us
either.
Rather, they are simply
teaching us – by word and example to love God, love our neighbor, teaching us also
compassion, self sacrifice …and sometimes, the environmental conditions are
difficult.
They also teach us to be
prepared, to think, work and to understand sometimes, we have to wait overnight
…or have to wait several weeks or months to see the fruit – the results – our
of labors
The man sleeps while his plants
are growing. However, he is not a
passive bystander waiting for the delivery of an overnight package.
He sleeps, he rests because he
has worked all day…
The man who sleeps has done his
homework. Now, he waits also for the harvest by listening and being attentive
to the Holy Spirit, day and night.
This is also what we have
learned from our parents, of our responsibility to care for ourselves, to care
for others …to nurture the life which God has given us. [_fin_]
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