Planting Seeds [Proper 6B - Mark 4:26-34]
The Rt. Rev. Jeremiah Williamson Mark 4:26-34 Planting seeds All Saints’, Hoosick In 2020, during the height of the early pandemic, I decided to plant a garden. Not very original, I know, but my wife has a gluten allergy and so bread-baking was pretty much off the table, and I am too cheap to buy a Peloton bike. And so, I tended to a garden. My first year was fairly successful. I grew more spinach than we could possibly eat; the basil was fresh and delicious; my oldest son devoured the cherry tomatoes. It was not a large garden; it did not solely sustain us through the ravages of the first year of the pandemic (I still had to buy and sanitize groceries), but I found the routine of my garden rewarding and the fruits of my labors fulfilling. And then year two arrived. I planted that second garden as life was reemerging. The vaccine was available. Masks were the norm; groceries no longer required Lysol. Things were returning to some kind of