Earthy revelation

In ancient times, hereditary priests, learned scribes, and Gnostic cults tried to make knowledge of God something above the reach of ordinary human beings.

Many theologians over the centuries have seemed to try to do the same: making knowledge of God seem esoteric and light years beyond the level of ordinary life

In today’s readings, God reveals himself through the most simple and earthy things of human experience: in the Gospel (Matthew 13:31-35), a common food ingredient and a small seed, and in the first reading (Jeremiah 13:1-11), a rotting loincloth.

In and through our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, may you and I seek the wisdom of God in all the things of our life: great and small.