Why the wheat and the weeds grow together?
So when the plants came up and bore grain, then the weeds appeared also. And the servants of the household came and said to him, ‘Sir, did you not sow good seed in your field? How then has it weeds?’ He said to them, ‘An enemy has done this.’
The servants said to him, ‘Then do you want us to go and gather them?’ But he said, ‘No; lest in gathering the weeds you root up the wheat along with them.’
Matthew 13: 26-29
Jesus talks about the reality of living in the world. There will be always good and bad that we have to contend with. It is our job to remain good in the reality of living alongside with evil. This is our every day challenge of life.
It is also true that we do not know what are truly weeds. That can only be determined at our end and we are not the ones who make that decision; only God alone!
This is a wonderful reality!
The pressure of judging is removed, and the focus is on us! This is something we all can do! When we focus on ourselves and stay close to the sower and His workers, we can have a good life, and through example of who we are and what we produce, we can change the World!
Let us love ourselves and be the best wheat (person) we can be. May we, in our own self love, be love in the world and bring peace.
Pax.
Hermitage of Peace 