SOW the seeds of love – Planting Instructions |
Part of the work that we are called to do is to sow the seeds of love in our community and beyond through: Service to God and the world One-ness with God and each other Welcome to neighbor and stranger We will be reminded of that work and God’s presence in our lives by actually sowing wildflower seeds that were handed out at the annual meeting. Here’s what to do:
The seed packet contains a variety of seeds — some annuals, perennials and biennials designed for our part of the country. Some will not grow until next year! Seed packets may contain: Calendula Cornflower Siberian Wallflower Shasta Daisy Lance leaf Coreopsis Plain Coreopsis Cosmos Sulphur Cosmos Giant Larkspur Sweet William Purple Coneflower California Poppy Blanketflower Baby’s Breath Dwarf Sunspot Candytuft Rose Mallow Blue Flax Scarlet Flax Perennial Lupine Love-in-a-Mist Baby Blue Eyes Shirley Poppy Mexican Hat Gloriosa Daisy Black Eyed Susan Catchfly |
The Parable of the Sower from Mark 4
Again he began to teach beside the lake. Such a very large crowd gathered around him that he got into a boat on the lake and sat there, while the whole crowd was beside the lake on the land. He began to teach them many things in parables, and in his teaching he said to them:‘Listen! A sower went out to sow. And as he sowed, some seed fell on the path, and the birds came and ate it up. Other seed fell on rocky ground, where it did not have much soil, and it sprang up quickly, since it had no depth of soil. And when the sun rose, it was scorched; and since it had no root, it withered away. Other seed fell among thorns, and the thorns grew up and choked it, and it yielded no grain. Other seed fell into good soil and brought forth grain, growing up and increasing and yielding thirty and sixty and a hundredfold.’ And he said, ‘Let anyone with ears to hear listen!’