30 January 2019
ON STONY GROUND (Mark 4:1-20)
‘Some seed fell on stony ground.’
How can you expect seed to grow on stony ground? There is little soil
and it sprouts quickly and then withers in the sun. We become enthusiastic about a person or
something we have heard or read. Many things draw us but often just for a
while. How do we acquire depth? It is one of the longings of our time. Where
do we find the resources, mental and physical, to work on our enthusiasms and
make them our own? Where do we find the
patience to believe that it is the process, not the achievement, that counts. It is 100 years since Shackleton’s ship was
swallowed up in Antarctic ice. He failed in his goal but he is celebrated for
the way he dealt with the crisis. He did not lose a single man.
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