Reflection
Today’s Gospel reading sounds like Jesus’ explanation of why there is both good and bad to be found together in our world.
We must also have at the back of our mind the thought that even the worst of people may be challenged and convert. None of us are all good or all bad. Maybe we are all like that field.
Hopefully on judgement day the bad will be burned and forgotten and the good harvested.
Do I think of anyone as all bad? Then pray for their conversion!
Today’s Prayer
Preparation: Begin by stilling; then dedicating the time of prayer to God and asking God that all you think, feel and imagine are for the glory of God.
Gift: Ask for what you desire. Suggestion: To know Jesus more clearly, love him more dearly, and follow him more nearly.
Setting: A Scripture reading to ponder – Lectio Divina or imaginative prayer.
Scripture
Matthew 13:24-30 WEB
Jesus set another parable before them, saying, “The Kingdom of Heaven is like a man who sowed good seed in his field, but while people slept, his enemy came and sowed darnel weeds also among the wheat, and went away.
But when the blade sprang up and produced grain, then the darnel weeds appeared also.
The servants of the householder came and said to him,
‘Sir, didn’t you sow good seed in your field?
Where did these darnel weeds come from?’
“He said to them, ‘An enemy has done this.’
“The servants asked him, ‘Do you want us to go and gather them up?’
“But he said, ‘No, lest perhaps while you gather up the darnel weeds, you root up the wheat with them. Let both grow together until the harvest, and in the harvest time I will tell the reapers, “First, gather up the darnel weeds, and bind them in bundles to burn them;
but gather the wheat into my barn.”’”
Conversation: Talk to Jesus in your own words as a friend
Final Prayer: End with a formal prayer such as the Lord’s Prayer/Our Father.
Today’s Music
Blest be the Lord: written by Dan Schutte