We have forgotten how to dream the land.
Season after Pentecost | 16th Sunday in Ordinary Time (Year A)
Genesis 28:10-19a; Psalm 139:1-12, 23-24; (Wisdom of Solomon 12:13, 16-19 or Isaiah 44:6-8; Psalm 86:11-17;) Romans 8:12-25; Matthew 13:24-30, 36-43
An insight I gleaned from Ernest Hemingway rings true for the mainline church today.
And what would happen if we didn't?
People do not float through life in the bubble that is their skin. We are grounded, dependent beings that live through the lives and deaths of others.
If a plant deprives your crop of moisture or sunlight, it's a weed. In most other situations, so-called weeds are actually doing a lot of good.