We sow what we do not know how
Greetings on this the Memorial of Saint John Bosco, Priest
Readings: Hebrews 10:32-39; Psalm 37:3-4, 5-6, 23-24, 39-40; Mark 4:26-34
Summary
Jesus said to the crowds: “This is how it is with the Kingdom of God; it is as if a man were to scatter seed on the land and would sleep and rise night and day and the seed would sprout and grow, he knows not how. Of its own accord the land yields fruit, first the blade, then the ear, then the full grain in the ear. And when the grain is ripe, he wields the sickle at once, for the harvest has come.”
Information Age
We live in the Information Age. Maybe that title is outdated now. The Internet Age? Even that title is too tame. Age of Discovery? Nah, already used previously. Maybe let us call these current times: the Age of Knowledge.
Of all the things that can be known, we know. A click and a search. Even more, with AI assisting, discover vectors, correlations and causation not previously known. Scientifically it is known as the Anthropocene Age (human domination), alternatively geologically called, Cenozoic (“new life”) era. But wanting to know and knowing are not the same. Sometimes we jut have to accept: he knows not how.
We want to know – Now!
This knowledge appetite is insatiable. We pour billions into the sciences and arts to discover the next thing and the next. Of itself it is fine and good. Of only itself it is a disaster. Lost in all this impulse and discovery is the person and person-hood.
For Jews demand signs and Greeks look for wisdom, but we proclaim Christ crucified, a stumbling block to Jews and foolishness to Gentiles, but to those who are called, Jews and Greeks alike, Christ the power of God and the wisdom of God. For the foolishness of God is wiser than human wisdom, and the weakness of God is stronger than human strength. (1 COR 1:22-25).
Trusting by design
Commit to the LORD your way;
trust in him, and he will act.
He will make justice dawn for you like the light;
bright as the noonday shall be your vindication.
We trust the seed will grow. We know, without knowing how, that things will order themselves aright. We have faith in the natural environment we are born into and a we are a part of naturally.
Faith in the person of God
By the LORD are the steps of a man made firm,
and he approves his way.
Though he fall, he does not lie prostrate,
for the hand of the LORD sustains him.
We are not among those who draw back and perish, but among those who have faith and will possess life.
The salvation of the just is from the LORD;
he is their refuge in time of distress.
And the LORD helps them and delivers them;
he delivers them from the wicked and saves them,
because they take refuge in him.
Sacred Readings full text: https://bible.usccb.org/bible/readings/013125.cfm
Peace be with you,
Deacon Gerry