For Your Weekend: Matters of the Heart

Dig Deeper into Sunday’s Gospel: Read Matthew 13:1–9

I am an amateur gardener. And by an amateur, I mean I buy beautiful plants, do nothing but water them, hope for the best, and when they die, I buy new ones to start the process again. 

Therefore, you can imagine how I felt when I brought one of my potted plants back from the brink of death. Only a few days ago, it was in a pathetic state. It hadn’t flowered since I bought it, and its leaves were dying. While I would usually resign myself to ye...