July 12
Our Lady of Lure
Avignon, France (1110)
Gospel: Matthew 13:1-23
(15th Sunday in Ordinary Time)
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Today’s Gospel
is the Parable of the Sower, seed was scattered generously on the path, the rock, thorns,
and good soil, with very different results depending entirely on the ground it
lands in. Jesus isn’t describing a careless farmer. He’s describing a generous
one, sowing without holding back even on soil that’s unlikely to produce
anything.
We spend a lot
of energy worrying about the seed, is the message right, the timing right, the
delivery right, when Jesus’s real focus in this parable is the soil. The same
Word lands differently in a heart that’s hardened, distracted, or shallow than
it does in one that’s been tended. Sometimes the issue was never what was sown;
it was the condition of our hearts, and if we made room in our lives for Jesus.
Tend to your
own soil today instead of just waiting for better seed to land on it. Clear out
the thorns of distraction and worry that choke things before they can grow.
Turn over the hardened places that have stopped letting anything in. The Word
is already being generously scattered over your life; the question worth asking
isn’t whether it’s good seed, but whether you’ve made room for it to take root.
Today, the
Marian calendar marks Our Lady of Lure, Avignon, France, 1110, one more patch
of ground people deliberately set aside and tended as holy. Our Lady’s own
heart is the model of good soil, receiving the Word so completely that it
became flesh within her. Something to ponder: Which part of your own soil needs
tending before anything new can take root there?
Rosary Man Jim 🌹
Freely given. Freely shared.
