Furthermore…

There is encouragment hidden in this story: that most people are part of the seed that falls on good soil and yields many times over.  I say this because any sower, or farmer, wouldn’t be out there broadcasting seed to the wind willy-nilly but would, of course, be making some effort to have it fall where it should, on the good soil. Any seed falling on rocky soil or among weeds would be because of  unwanted and unavoidable accidents, representing just a small percentage of the mass of seed distributed. May we carry over the analogy to believe that God has so arranged things that the most of us “land” in circumstances conducive to our spiritual growth and fruitfulness?

Priest in pew hearing face to face Confessions to penitent wearing paper bag with eye holes over head:

 ”You’ll probably be glad to learn that the repair work on the regular confessional will be finished next week!”