Today's parable of the wheat and weeds rings a bell with any gardener...How we hate the weeds! How much time to we spend trying to remove them so that the "good plants" may have enough water, sunshine and nutriments. Once the weeds are gone, and all seems well, they appear two days later, readying to take over again...We are frustrated over that, not to mention the "good plants" we mistakenly pull up or damaged in the weeding process. Is Jesus right in saying "Let them grow together until the harvest," at which time the reapers will then separate the wheat from the weeds.?
If we take the weeds to be undesirable people, criminals, for example, we know from experience that "weeding them out" helps, but as with the weeds, others take their place.
If we look into our hearts, we see both good plants and bad and find a lifetime is not enough to rid ourselves of the bad. Servant of God, Bishop Fulton J. Sheen suggests that our hope lies in Mary, as our hope. St. Augustine said that she "was made the Mother of God more for sinners than for the just." Which aligns with the mission of Jesus, who came to save sinners, not the just. Let's let them help us with our weeding.
Bro Rene
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