In the Weeds © Jan L. Richardson
Reading from the Gospels, Proper 11/Ordinary 16/Pentecost +5: Matthew 13.24-30, 36-43
With some recent traveling and being immersed in a project, I’m sorry I haven’t managed to post a new reflection this week. I’ll be back soon! In the meantime, I invite you to visit a previous reflection I wrote on this week’s gospel lection at In the Weeds.
If I were writing a blessing for this week, it would be something about how the blessing does not live in the wheat alone, but in the process of sifting and sorting through what’s present in the landscape of our days, and in finding—amidst whatever seeks to distract or disturb or damage us—the sustenance that is always there. A blessing that requires movement on our part, and giving ourselves to the kind of growth that happens as we seek clarity and purpose in the presence of challenges and resistance and complications.
And you? What sort of blessing would you write this week?
Whatever weeds may be present in the landscape of your life right now, I wish you peace and the agility to move and grow amongst them.
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