Dear Friends,
What a week! I haven’t traveled lately but I had the opportunity this past week to go “Around the World in 5 Days”!!!! Oh what a thrill it was!
Vicky Wejko was our “tour director” in what became a fabulous trip for all who came along with her! As Vicky said just before the adventure began “We are very excited for Vacation Bible School this year! We have been preparing, praying, and purposing to make this year’s VBS the best yet!” And it was!
Along with Vicky, Anne Gallagher, Karen Luke and so many of our young people & adults joined together in providing a great week for all our VBS campers! It was a joy to see folks from both the Church of the Transfiguration and Saint Catherine of Siena come together for this special week. I want to thank Vicky and everyone who made this “trip” possible. We are certainly blessed with gifted and giving people whose stewardship is a gift to us in so many ways!
This weekend we hear and reflect on a very familiar parable to most of us, seed being sowed on the ground. We hear that this seed fell on a path that the birds ate up, some fell on rocky ground, some fell among thorns, and some fell on rich ground. Jesus concludes the parable saying “Whoever has ears ought to hear.”
What do you and I hear? We certainly have ears. In listening to Jesus do we choose “selective hearing”? What fruit are we producing? Can we identify with Jesus saying the ones who hear and act upon His word produce “a hundred or sixty or thirtyfold”?
In response to the disciples question, “Why do you speak in parables” the Lord says “To anyone who has, more will be given and they will grow rich; from anyone who has not, even what they have will be taken away.” May we look at our lives and ask ourselves, are we growing rich with the Word of the Lord? What are we “producing” with our lives in regard to the planting of seed from Jesus? Share your thoughts with family and friends. Ask them what they see you are producing for the Kingdom of God. Do you see what they see by your life?
Have a great week and I hope to see everyone who is not “traveling around the world” in church!
Blessings to all these summer days,
Father Rob