The image to the right is one that we are living with as we work our way through the parables. When we think of a tree, we often only visualize what we see above the ground. But a tree is so much more than that. The very life and vitality of the tree depends on the unseen roots.
Thomas Keating points out that the point of the parables is often to ask the question: “What makes you think that the world is the way you see it?” So, as we work through the parables, we are asking the same question. What is it in this parable that Jesus is trying to reveal to us? Where is the kingdom of God at work around us in ways that we’ve not been aware of?
I hope that as we work through the parables we can be asking these questions. That we can be looking for what is going on that is unseen. But not just as we sit with the text on Sundays, but on Monday through Saturday as well.
