Proper 6 (B) + Rooted, we rise! + 6.17.18
Melissa Campbell-Langdell All Santos, Oxnard (1 Samuel 15:34–16:13; Ps 20; 2 Corinthians 5:6–10, (11–13), 14–17; St Mark 4:26–34) Jesus said, “The kingdom of God is as if someone would scatter seed on the ground, and would sleep and rise night and day, and the seed would sprout and grow, he does not know how. The earth produces of itself, first the stalk, then the head, then the full grain in the head. But when the grain is ripe, at once he goes in with his sickle, because the harvest has come.” (Mark 4:26-29) In the Kingdom of God, we are participants and wonderers too. We are like the farmer depicted in Wendell Berry’s “The Man Born to Farming” described here: The grower of trees, the gardener, the man born to farming, … His thought passes along the row ends like a mole. What miraculous seed has he swallowed that the unending sentence of his love flows out of his mouth like a vine clinging in the sunlight, and like water descending in the dark? [1] What ...