Extracted from an article by Austin Ivereigh published in The Tablet on February 3rd, 2024

 

The author wonders how we can talk of seeds of hope in a world “gripped by the deathtrap logic of war”. His reflection is essentially about keeping hope alive and planting the seeds of new life.

Extracts:       

The Kingdom of God starts off as a mustard seed that becomes a great tree.

I get Jesus’ point: these unlikely mini, specky things are so packed with genetic amino all you need is to prepare the soil, and cast them on it.

You’ve got to care, you’ve got to believe this, you have to act, sow baby, sow!

Your sowing may appear a drop in the ocean, insignificant… But if it is aligned with the divine purpose of Creation, however small it is, it will not disappear.

Do these old spuds look like they’ll have healthy offspring? Hardly . Do I know I’ll have a bounteous harvest? I do not. But it’s happened before, so I trust they can do it again.

Referring to the war in the Holy Land: But you can hope that into that bloody dust of grief and desperation the ‘logoi spermatokoi’ (seeds of the Word) have blown in on a gust of wind or on the back legs of a bee, and are ready to germinate.

It’s happened before, and it can happen again…

 

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