God the Farmer

Are you wheat? Or are you a weed? How do you know? Do you hang around with other wheat or other weeds? What's the difference between a weed and a wildflower? Aren't they the same things?

In my part of the world chickory is growing alongside the roads. Such beauty. Wildflower? Weed? I say wildflower-weed because it is not only possible, but most probable, for the two to co-exist.

I'm wheat as well as weed. I have my multigrain moments on good days while on other days I'm sure my dear ones have wished to spray me with Weed-B-Gon. In this weekend's gospel Jesus reminds us in parable form that pulling out the weeds while the wheat is young may damage the wheat. So He encourages us to let both grow side-by-side just as He allows both parts of each of us to grow right alongside each other.

Days when we are grumpy or downright mean God does not smite us sending us to a fiery end. No, God the Farmer is patient with His cultivation. He watches over us, He cares for us whether we are weedy or wheaty. We are two sides of the same human coin. How we choose to flip is up to us – not up to God, or to luck or mere chance. We're talking free will here.

You can be the biggest weed the world has ever known. You can ignore your wheat side. It's up to you. Or you can cultivate the good in you. Only you can truly recognize the weeds as they surface, and only you can carefully separate weed from wheat. No one can do it for you. God won't do it for you. But He will be watching every moment. And He will freely give you all the tools you will need. He'll give you pointers along the way. So read His signs. Use His tools. Be His wheat. And watch your garden grow.
~ Maureen :)