Working the fields

The Sower’s Slow March

The sower goes out to the field with seeds in different sizes and colours, for soils of different textures and soils of different moulds. What can survive and thrive is what is sown in the valley or on the hills, the shade or in the open, the swamp or the dry land.

The sower goes out to the field to sow, some fell on rocky ground some fell on sandy soil some fell on clayey soil some fell on fertile ground.

The sower goes out to the field to take out the weeds and pests, the fallen and rotten fruits. He prunes the branches and pushes up the plants pulled down by the wind. He removes the creepers suffocating the shrubs, he waters the plants and heaps sand on exposed roots.

Here and there he manures with dead and dry leaves, reinstates the broken paths and drains the swampy beds.

The sower goes out again with his emissaries to sow the Word in the World; it is the same Word at different times in different shades to different peoples according to their geographies, according to their histories, the limits of their languages and extent of spiritual maturity.

For India there was Buddha, for China, there was Lao- Tse in Arabia there was Mohammed, to Persia, Zoroaster and to Egypt and Israel, went Moses and because Israel woke early even as it sometimes stumbled, it received other workers of the vineyard and even the Son of the owner Lord of the Realms.

What the peoples did with the Word received helped to determine how fast they prospered or regressed.

In different epoch and eras, different Empires and Kingdoms humanity harmed neigbour, humanity hurt the earth so lost its real essence and disconnected from Source of life.

The sower goes out to the fields to see: some plants have withered some of them are smothered some get thrown to the bonfire a few have ripe fruits for the barn

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