”The Mustard Seed” - A Reflection for the Fourth Sunday after Pentecost, Year B

Dear Friends,

For such a brief passage, the parable of the mustard seed works well on many levels. Let's start with the obvious. Appearances are deceiving. Great things can have very humble origins. Mustard is a weed. It grows in the wild from a tiny seed. While other weeds spring from the ground and spread prodigiously, the tiny mustard seed inconspicuously comes to life sending out a single root to probe the earth for nourishment. But while others are gone in a single season, the slow, steady progress of the mustard seed's offshoots continue on for generations.

 

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