Dear All of Us,
Few of us are farmers.
All of us are planters.
We sow seeds
in plentitude,
hundreds plused daily.
It's never a matter of if.
It's always a matter of what,
and that with consequent effect.
"As you sow,
so shall you reap."
Jesus
Every thought, word, deed,
motion, emotion, choice,
decision, action, reaction is
seed planted as such
and reaped as such.
Sow So
Reap So
It's cause and inevitable effect.
Plant it. Get it.
These seeds are pulsations of
the energy we are -
positive
negative
always consequent in kind.
They can be
ordered to disordered
real to unreal
good to far from it
The specifics are particular
to us and our ways.
There are as many pulsations
as there are the energies in us.
They percolate in us.
They go out from us.
There is always
a consequent effect,
be it in us or beyond us.
In prayer, and with candor,
let's check out
what seeds we plant.
The "we" is two tired
individual
as a society
Being as specific as we can,
- might help to do this
with pen and paper -
what's our sowing and reaping
when we scatter seeds of:
joy acceptance
anger gratitude
care enthusiasm
love creativity
support patience
truth pettiness
hatred selfishness
violence sympathy
rejection compassion
Catherine of Genoa said
"God is my deepest self."
If how we are,
if what we say and do,
springs, pulsates from
that Center,
that Goodness,
that God,
what we sow
will harvest to Good.
Conversely, if we violate
the energy,
the Goodness of God
at our Center,
twist it unreal,
what we sow
is twisted
and so are we
and so is
what is reaped.
Good comes from good.
No good comes from no good.
Sow So
Reap So
Jesus spoke a corollary
to this stark truth.
"By their fruits
you will know them."
What fruits are
we producing?
It's critical to honestly
see our harvest -
our individual one
our societal one.
What are the effects
of what is pulsating from
me
us
What are the fruits of
our life style
our work,
our choices,
our actions,
our spiritual life ?
What are the fruits of
our churches,
our governments,
our society's
social structures,
our effects on
planet and climate,
our society's
wealth distribution,
our media,
our entertainments.
Whatever they are,
they are the fruits
of what we plant.
We have a choice
in sowing.
We have no choice
in reaping.
"As you sow
so shall
you reap."
Sow So
Reap So
Here's to good planting.
John Frank
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All the best with
your field work.
See you next week
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