This kingdom of God – this dream of God for creation – is like a mustard seed, a seed so small that if it were on my finger here, we could barely see it. And one day a person took that seed and planted it in the ground. And it began to grow, and to grow, and to grow until the birds of the air came and made their nests in the tree.
I wonder if the person planting the seed has a name, and what that person is doing while the seed is growing. And of the tree, and the nests, and this entire whole place… what could it really be? And have we ever drawn this close to a place like this?
In this visual mystery, with seeds in our hands, we come to see that the reign of God starts so small, and yet grows so grand. We draw close to God in the mystery of it all as we come to receive the reign of God, offered by Jesus to us today in a couple of sentences about some seeds.
The spaciousness of this parable invites our participation, compels our participation.
--Alyssa Pasternak
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