“At the beginning of our second summer being married, Alice and I came up with the great idea of planting a garden. We drove over to the Home Depot one town over and we bought a little raised garden bed, and a couple of bags of soil, and some seedlings, and we put it in the back yard, and filled it with soil, and planted all our little plants, and we waited eagerly to eat what we would grow. Well, you have never seen such pathetic vegetables in your life. Tiny lettuce plants shriveled up even smaller than the seedlings we’d bought from the store. Bulbous zucchini two inches long and covered in tiny squirrel chew-marks. The only things that really grew well were the herbs, and that just meant I was trying to add mint to everything until Alice finally got sick of it sometime in mid-July. But the tomatoes were a different story.” Greg preaches on the Parable of the Sower.

Lectionary Readings:
Genesis 25:19-34
Psalm 119:105-112
Romans 8:1-11
Matthew 13:1-9,18-23