Based on Matthew 13:36-43

Jesus, life this side of heaven is so hard, so troubled, so broken. Evil is twisted into everything. All is corrupted, entangled. Will there ever be peace, truth, justice? How do we hold on to hope?

Remember the seed
You sew the good seed, Jesus
It will grow

At the End of the Age, you will bring a harvest of grace and salvation. You will send your angels to collect all the sin. The separation. The corruption. The brokenness. The self-serving. The abusing. The violent. The envy. The resentment and the wrath. The greed, the fear, the diseased, the shame.

This is not your seed.
You sew the good seed, Jesus
It will grow

At the End of the Age, you will open wide your saving embrace to receive us and all that enslaves us. You will collect us and burn away all that is broken and soiled and wrong, that we may shine like the sun with you forever and for always.

Help us Jesus. Help us listen and help us follow and help us trust. Sew your good seed deep in us, in your church, and in the world, that we may grow and look to you and hope. Amen

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Sew Your Good Seed © 2017 Lisa Ann Moss Degrenia
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