This blog provides a meditation on the Episcopal daily readings along with a headline from world news:
Sudanese woman to be stoned for claimed adultery 
Proverbs 24 10-17
Does not he who keeps watch over your soul know it? And will he not repay all according to their deeds?
My child, eat honey, for it is good, and the drippings of the honeycomb are sweet to your taste.
14 Know that wisdom is such to your soul; if you find it, you will find a future, and your hope will not be cut off.
THE FREQUENT ASSOCIATION IN THE BIBLE OF WISDOM AND GOD’S LAW WITH HONEY ALWAYS MOVES ME. OVER THE YEARS GUIDANCE THAT ONCE SEEMED HARSH TO ME HAS BECOME SWEET
15 Do not lie in wait like an outlaw against the home of the righteous; do no violence to the place where the righteous live;
16 for though they fall seven times, they will rise again; but the wicked are overthrown by calamity.
17 Do not rejoice when your enemies fall, and do not let your heart be glad when they stumble,
AH! WHO CAN CONTROL THE HEART IN SUCH A CASE?
18 or else the Lord will see it and be displeased, and turn away his anger from them.
Matthew 13:24-30
The Parable of Weeds among the Wheat
24 He put before them another parable: ‘The kingdom of heaven may be compared to someone who sowed good seed in his field;
25but while everybody was asleep, an enemy came and sowed weeds among the wheat, and then went away.
26So when the plants came up and bore grain, then the weeds appeared as well.
27And the slaves of the householder came and said to him, “Master, did you not sow good seed in your field? Where, then, did these weeds come from?”
28He answered, “An enemy has done this.” The slaves said to him, “Then do you want us to go and gather them?”
29But he replied, “No; for in gathering the weeds you would uproot the wheat along with them.
30Let both of them grow together until the harvest; and at harvest time I will tell the reapers, Collect the weeds first and bind them in bundles to be burned, but gather the wheat into my barn.”
’Jesus’ teaching rests on what everyone knows is the wise method of dealing with weeds in the wheat, trying to root them out while the wheat is growing risks trampling or pulling up the wheat. The wise farmer waits till harvest to separate weeds and crop. It’s like that with the new community of God’s rule. Its inclusive goodness means that there may be some useless people within it, but the answer is not to become over-meticulous about selection. Let fruitful people flourish; God has a day for assessing the harvest. On a wider canvas the parable can be an answer to the question about evil in God’s world. How has it come to be there? Jesus’ enigmatic answer, that an enemy has done it, only shifts the focus of the question. Why did God allow the enemy to do it? No answer is given except the wise rule of waiting till harvest. Until then, let fruitful people flourish!
THE FREQUENT ASSOCIATION IN THE BIBLE OF WISDOM AND GOD’S LAW WITH HONEY ALWAYS MOVES ME. OVER THE YEARS GUIDANCE THAT ONCE SEEMED HARSH TO ME HAS BECOME SWEET
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