Moving towards Palm Sunday.
Does a phrase stick in your mind and keep coming back to you through the week?
At some point in the last week, maybe on Sunday, possibly in a hymn or a prayer, the phrase, ‘Sow seeds of love,’ came up and has stuck ever since.
Maybe because the theme of sowing seeds has been a recurring one recently. At the recent Pram Service, we read about the sower and the seeds, or at the Early Birds last week the theme was Mustard Seed to Tree, and the Church Garden is full of new growth.
At the Ordination and Induction service on Monday we were reminded not to be always busy ‘doing’ but also to take time and ‘be still and listen to God’ .
We started this Lent series of reflections with a reading from the Little Book of Lent
“Lent first directs our thoughts to the image of the desert, the one in which Jesus spent forty days of solitude, or the one that God’s people crossed by walking forty years.
Yet when these weeks before Easter returned, Brother Roger, Prior of the Taizé Community, liked to recall that it was not a time for austerity or sorrow, or a period to cultivate guilt, but rather a season to sing the joy of forgiveness. He saw Lent as forty days to prepare to rediscover little springtimes in our lives.”
Little springtimes when a seed of joy, peace, love is planted in our lives.
In the same way we too can share and bring ‘little springtimes’ to others.
We may not think we are doing important work for God but we can all scatter seeds of love to each other and to the wider community.
If we sow the seeds then God brings them to growth and then to the harvest.
