Prayer
I rejoice in this season of warmth and growth, so full of
life.
As plants and animals soak up the sun’s life-energy,
may I absorb your Life this day in countless ways. (E. Hayes, Prayers
for a Planetary Pilgrim)
Scripture
Matthew 13: 1 – 9
On that day, Jesus went out of the house and sat down by
the sea. Such large crowds gathered
around him that he got into a boat and sat down, and the whole crowd stood
along the shore. And he spoke to them at length in parables, saying: “A sower
went out to sow. And as he sowed, some seed fell on the path, and birds came
and ate it up. Some fell on rocky ground, where it had little soil. It sprang
up at once because the soil was not deep, and when the sun rose it was
scorched, and it withered for lack of roots. Some seed fell among thorns, and
the thorns grew up and choked it. But some seed fell on rich soil, and produced
fruit, a hundred or sixty or thirtyfold.
Whoever has ears ought to hear.”