Sunday, July 12, 2020
Dear St Luke Community,
When repeated themes show up in life I usually sit up straight and listen with perked up ears because God is speaking, for better or worse. These past few weeks, it seems everywhere I look, I’m hearing about seeds and souls.
Meister Eckhart (Theologian, philosopher and mystic 1260-1328) called the true seed within us as the living presence of God’s image implanted in the soul. “There is something in the soul which is only God.” he wrote. if that’s true, and I believe it is, then there’s also a collective soul that lives in our country, and it’s in dire need of tending.
This Sunday we’ll hear Jesus tell the parable of the sower ( Matthew 13:1-9, 18-23). We tend to think of God as the one who scatters seeds and ourselves as the soil. But what if we’re the ones who carry seeds and cultivate soil. What kinds of seeds do we lay if the seeds we carry within us are our reflection of the God within? Are the seeds we lay the things we say or the things we do? Do they have an impact on the world? If we can’t even raise our own children to be and do exactly what we’d like, then what control do we have over the kind of world we live in, or the people around us?
I have more questions then I do answers at this moment, but one thing is for sure; we are called to both lay seeds and to cultivate the ones that are gifted to us by God.
Which is easier said than done.
See you Sunday on Zoom,
Nicole