Reflection
In every seed lies the components of all life the world has known from all time to now. Seeds are the one thing that are the only genuine promise we have of the future. And now, so accustomed have we become to destruction in the name of progress, we are on the brink of commercializing seed, of politicizing seed, of monopolizing seed, of genetically modifying seeds for the sake of someone’s control of creation, of making seed the new military weapon of the twenty-first century. It is all a matter of valuing the money we can make today more than we value the life that is meant to come. But the problem is that we ourselves are all seeds, too. We are either seeds of universal love or seeds of exploitative racism. We are seeds of eternal hope or we are seeds of starving despair. We are seeds of a new humanity or we are the harbingers of humanity’s decay. It is a choice. We are the seed of our own life to come and the life of the planet as well.
From Joan Chittister’s essay in Sacred Seed
Prayer
And some seed fell on good ground and grew and made a hundred times more.
Luke 8:8
Action
Read the Parable of the Sower. Consider the type of seed you represent. What is your choice?
Suggested reading
A man reaps what he sows.
Galatians 6:7.
“And some fell into good soil, and grew up and produced a crop a hundred times as great.” As He said these things, He called out, “He who has ears to hear, let him hear and heed My words.”
Luke 8
Jesus, the good does not tire of sowing with generosity. He knows our soil. He knows that the stones of our inconstancy and the thorns of our vices can choke the Word, yet He always hopes that we can bear abundant fruit.
Pope Francis
Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.
Robert Louis Stevenson
The focus is what is right before you – to give it your best. It sows the seeds of tomorrow.
Kiran Bedi
There are seeds of self-destruction in all of us that will bear only unhappiness if allowed to grow. Dorothea Brande
Your mind is a garden. Your thoughts are the seeds. The harvest can either be flowers or weeds.
William Wordsworth
Keep planting new seeds until your mind becomes the earth that gives birth to new worlds.
Curtis Tyrone Jones
Legacy. What is a legacy? It’s planting seeds in a garden you never get to see.
Hamilton, the Musical