Mt 13:1-9, 18-23
1. Which is your favorite parable in scripture? Why?
2. Do you have trouble relating to parables that were originally told as stories to people in a different time and place? Are there modern analogies or angles that make them more meaningful for you today?
3. What do you think that parables accomplish that simple, direct speech cannot? Can you recall a time when a parable led you into a space where you chose to move closer to God? Where you stepped back toward ‘business as usual?’
4. Mtr. Mary encouraged us to look at ourselves as the sower vs. the four types of soil. What kind of sower of God’s love and forgiveness have you been? Have you been a reckless, high-risk sower? Or have you been more frugal and targeted with your sowing? Why do you think this is?
5. Where in your life right now might God be calling you to be more generous with your sowing?
6. Are you able to rest in the truth that it is God’s work to bring the seed to bountiful harvest and not yours? Or do you find yourself pre-judging soil? Trying to do God’s work for him?
7. Can you reflect on your spiritual life and recall when you received the good seed of God’s love and grace and forgiveness even when you weren’t ‘well prepared’ for it? How did this affect your understanding of God and his love for you? Who has been a generous and reckless sower of God’s love in your life?
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