PLANT AND CULTIVATE GOOD SEED
May we always pray and ponder on God's interests and comprehend the
things that are most important in life's purpose.
Today we can
benefit from paying some attention to the kind of seed we sow with our
thoughts, our words, our actions, and our withholding of action. In the verses
just preceding today's first reading from the letter to Timothy, St. Paul
speaks of seeds like envy, rivalry, evil suspicions, mutual friction among
people, using religion for personal gain, and, of course, the one that drives
so much of national economies, namely, greed. If we plant these seeds we will
have a harvest of heartbreak, poverty, violence and so on. Thank God there are
other seeds, definitely preferred by our heavenly Father and God's inspired
Scripture: righteousness, devotion, faith, love, patience, and gentleness.
May we always pray
and ponder on God's interests and comprehend the things that are most important
in life's purpose. If we find ourselves too busy to pray or too preoccupied to
study and meditate on God's word we might think of the following. Jesus says in
the Gospel of Luke: "Whoever has ears to hear ought to hear." May we
listen in order to understand. Our heavenly Father gives grace to those of us
who hunger and thirst for His word that we may understand His will and have the
strength to live according to it.
Do we hunger and
thirst for God's Word?
If so then we will
plant and cultivate good seeds and we will have a harvest of good relations,
peace of mind and spirit, and in time the ultimate prize - eternal life. In
today's Responsorial Psalm we acclaim: Enter His gates with thanksgiving, and
His courts with praise.