Daily Worship

How did that happen?

jolove April 20, 2013 0 0

Mark 4:26-29

Jesus went on to say, “The Kingdom of God is like this.
A man scatters seed in his field. He sleeps at night, is up and about during the day, and all the while the seeds are sprouting and growing. Yet he does not know how it happens.
The soil itself makes the plants grow and bear fruit; first the tender stalk appears, then the head, and finally the head full of grain. When the grain is ripe, the man starts cutting it with his sickle, because harvest time has come.

Mrs Jamieson, seventy something,
always was a prickly pastoral visitee.
“Don’t worry,” her friends said,
“She’s been cantankerous all her life.”
Angie, forty something,
always had a question,
“How will I ever be like Jesus?”
And today went on to tell me
about her sister’s OBE.
Twenty years ago,
she would have quaked in her sister’s shadow, felt miles behind,
clumsy, incompetent, crushed by the way Kate shone in everything.
Ten years ago?
Well, not so bad, just jealous probably.
Five years ago?
I think she’d stopped comparing herself by then.
Started feeling happier in her own skin.
Might not have been bothered either way.
Today, she speaks with glowing pride,
of a shared celebration,
a place unrecognisable by that Angie of years gone by.
How did that happen?
Mrs Jamieson was prickly to the last.
Life’s not perfect.

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Written by Jo Love