Reflection
Blessed are they who have kept the word with a generous heart and yield a harvest through perseverance.
Perseverance calls all of us to live Gospel-centered lives. We live in a world and a church that challenge us to hang onto to those seeds of faith that were planted in us at baptism. In order to grow in our faith, we must be willing to walk on rocky ground, put up with the thorns we encounter, persevere in the Gospel message even when we don’t understand it or want to hear it. We are reminded in the Gospel today that:
But the seed sown on rich soil is the one who hears the word and understands it, who indeed bears fruit and yields a hundred or sixty or thirtyfold.
May we continue to be the rich soil that bears fruit not only in our lives but in the lives of all those we encounter on our faith journey!
