Journey to Wholeness
… Read the restFor my thoughts are not your thoughts,
neither are your ways my ways, declares the Lord.
For as the heavens are higher than the earth,
so are my ways higher than your ways
and my thoughts than your thoughts.
“But whoever drinks the water I shall give will never thirst; the water I shall give will become in him a spring of water welling up to eternal life.”
Like the crocus it shall bloom abundantly,
Isaiah 35:2a
and rejoice with joyful song.
The Hebrew word translated variously as “crocus,” “meadow saffron,” “rose,” “narcissus,” “lily,” or “flower” (chabatstseleth) is of uncertain derivation.… Read the rest
The one who supplies seed to the sower and bread for food will supply and multiply your seed and increase the harvest of your righteousness.
2 Corinthians 9:10
The abundant life of grace mirrors the magnanimous fecundity of our Creator.… Read the rest
15th Sunday in Ordinary Time (Year A)
Isaiah 55:10-11; Romans 8:18-23; Mattthew 13:1-23
Thus says the LORD: Just as from the heavens the rain and snow come down and do not return there till they have watered the earth, making it fertile and fruitful, giving seed to the one who sows and bread to the one who eats, so shall my word be that goes forth from my mouth; my word shall not return to me void, but shall do my will, achieving the end for which I sent it.… Read the rest