“It is not our job to pull out the weeds, but is our job to be the wheat in the world.”
Weeds and Wheat: What To Do With the Weeds?
July 28, 2020
In our reading for today, Matthew 13: 36-43, we are faced with the challenge of what to do with the weeds. The disciples, once again, come to Jesus and ask for an explanation as the early church is faced with those who seem to be from the Evil One. What should they do? And Jesus tells them, leave them be. God will take care of the weeds on the day of judgement.
How difficult it is for us to let the weeds be. Shouldn’t we be judging them, rooting them out, and removing them? And the message is, God will take care of it, not our job. That takes trust in our God. It also takes patience and compassion on our part to let the weeds grow with the wheat in our world and in ourselves.
As Pope Francis has said, “Who are we to judge?” If only we could let go of the judging… wouldn’t life be easier?
It’s our messy lives as humans to be full of wheat and weeds. Our field is full of weeds that grow with the wheat. We come to accept our own imperfections and learn from them. And in accepting our own weeds, we come to be more merciful and compassionate with others.
So where is the wheat in our lives? And where are the weeds? Let us each day be the wheat to all.
~Ann Zimmer
Tuesday of the Seventeenth Week in Ordinary Time
Gospel | Matthew 13:36-43
Jesus dismissed the crowds and went into the house.
His disciples approached him and said,
His disciples approached him and said,
“Explain to us the parable of the weeds in the field.”
He said in reply, “He who sows good seed is the Son of Man,
the field is the world, the good seed the children of the Kingdom.
The weeds are the children of the Evil One,
and the enemy who sows them is the Devil.
The harvest is the end of the age, and the harvesters are angels.
Just as weeds are collected and burned up with fire,
so will it be at the end of the age.
The Son of Man will send his angels,
and they will collect out of his Kingdom
all who cause others to sin and all evildoers.
They will throw them into the fiery furnace,
where there will be wailing and grinding of teeth.
Then the righteous will shine like the sun
in the Kingdom of their Father.
Whoever has ears ought to hear.”
He said in reply, “He who sows good seed is the Son of Man,
the field is the world, the good seed the children of the Kingdom.
The weeds are the children of the Evil One,
and the enemy who sows them is the Devil.
The harvest is the end of the age, and the harvesters are angels.
Just as weeds are collected and burned up with fire,
so will it be at the end of the age.
The Son of Man will send his angels,
and they will collect out of his Kingdom
all who cause others to sin and all evildoers.
They will throw them into the fiery furnace,
where there will be wailing and grinding of teeth.
Then the righteous will shine like the sun
in the Kingdom of their Father.
Whoever has ears ought to hear.”
"Tend the Ground" by Curtis Stephan
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