Kristofer and Growing as One in God’s Love

Growing as One in God’s Love

Today Kristofer reflects on what it means for us at St. Francis Parish-Epiphany Community Center to - as our mission calls us to - “grow as one in God’s love”. Just as our lay and clergy leadership prepare reflections on this theme for our annual meeting, as a wider community of faith we are all invited to contemplate what this growth process means for us. In the assigned gospel for this day (below), Jesus shares yet another parable that challenges us to think and pray about our lives and ministries through the lens of planting, sowing, weeding, and harvesting. While much of the natural world around us in these winter months may seem dormant, there is so much happening beneath the surface. Our SSS encourages you to dig a little deeper to see what you might unearth in your spiritual life and in your formation as a follower of Jesus.

Matthew 13:24-30

Jesus put before the crowd another parable: “The kingdom of heaven may be compared to someone who sowed good seed in his field; but while everybody was asleep, an enemy came and sowed weeds among the wheat, and then went away. So when the plants came up and bore grain, then the weeds appeared as well. And the slaves of the householder came and said to him, ‘Master, did you not sow good seed in your field? Where, then, did these weeds come from?’ He answered, ‘An enemy has done this.’ The slaves said to him, ‘Then do you want us to go and gather them?’ But he replied, ‘No; for in gathering the weeds you would uproot the wheat along with them. Let both of them grow together until the harvest; and at harvest time I will tell the reapers, Collect the weeds first and bind them in bundles to be burned, but gather the wheat into my barn.’”