And some seed fell on rich soil and produced fruit. It came up and grew
and yielded thirty, sixty, and a hundredfold. He added, “Whoever
has ears to hear ought to hear.” Mark 4
The seed is the Word of God,
Jesus himself. In his Incarnation he has fallen into the soil of our humanity, our lowliness. Humus
is the Latin word for soil and is the origin of the word humility. In the rich loamy earth of our sometimes-bitter
self-knowledge, we are on the ground, in the humus of our reality. It is
in the lowliness of this truth, that we realize who we are, what we are, who we
long for, who it is we need. Jesus always comes to meet us down there.
Photograph by Brother Brian.
