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....
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.