Although we're back in Ordinary Time, we're fully reminded that "Ordinary" does not refer to this time being uneventful and unexciting.
Indeed, a farmer's daily work, as Jesus stipulates in the first parable in the Gospel reading, involves planting seeds, and then tending to them until they bear fruit. Through a slow, but sure process, the seeds become a bountiful harvest.
God indeed is at work in our world, and in us, His people, to bring about His Kingdom. We don't really know how it happens, but our faith tell us that it does. God is truly in charge of accomplishing His purposes, even so far as reversing fortunes and letting good stand in the face of evil.
While we don't control things as God does, we nonethless seek to please Him as we participate in the work of the Kingdom He does within us, whom He has chosen. And even small efforts can become something immense, like the mustard seed, just as the seed of Christ's Death and Resurrection produces something immense, and Eternal. Indeed, in light of the Paschal Mystery, we have faith to know God accomplishes His work.
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