7/12/20: 15th Sunday in Ordinary Time: God is not Like Us: What the Strange Sower Tells Us About God the Father

In Jesus's parables there is always a detail that seems a little surprising or odd. In the parable of the sower, it is definitely the appearance that the sower is really bad at his job. He is sowing seed, and he is getting it everywhere! So what is Jesus trying to tell us? He's trying to illustrate the way that God loves -- generously and not worried about waste. Such is God's love for us that he lavishes upon us in the Word he gives us: Jesus. So what kind of soil are we for our foolishly generous father? Good soil that can receive and welcome the gift of Jesus into our hearts so that faith can take root? Or thorns and rocks that represent a heart closed to grace?