What’s on your Mind? When you’re not thinking about anything in particular, what do you find yourself thinking about?
One of my favorite places to visit is Fort Davis in the Davis Mountains of Texas. It is an area that has its own kind of beauty. There aren’t many trees larger than the small and scrubby little trees that have taken hold in that semi-arid land.
Faith is famously defined in the first verse: “Now faith is the assurance of things hoped for, the conviction of things not seen.”
Several historical details from ancient Judea help to illuminate the rhetorical force of this famous example story.
Many of Jesus’ teachings were in parables, stories that made a point and usually startled his first hearers into a new way of seeing things. Today’s reading actually follows Jesus’ “Parable of the Sower and the Seeds.”