What’ll it be?
(for someone who’s stuck in neutral)
What’ll it be? What’ll you have?
It doesn’t matter how you ask it. The answer to the bartender’s eternal question? It has consequences.
It marks the designated driver. It shows wisdom in an unexpected place, revealing someone who knows their limits.
And it can separate a night you’ll want to remember, from one you’ll always regret.
Today’s Gospel is the parable of the sower. Well, really just the last part of it. Where Jesus tells us what the good soil represents, what the rocky soil represents, etc.
This one shows up a lot in the readings. So we get to hear this one a lot in church.
But whether it’s the explanation by Jesus that we get today, the short version we hear at Mass during the week, or the long version we hear on Sundays. There’s something missing from every version of this parable.
Bystanders.
The truth of the parable of the sower is that in this life, there are no bystanders.
There is no safe place to stand out of the way. No matter how much we’d rather not get involved, we already are.
We’re stuck. We have a choice to make. We don’t just get to pick which type of soil we’re going to be.
We have to pick which type of soil we’re going to be.
And just like the bartender’s eternal question, our answer to that question has consequences. Eternal consequences.
So what’ll it be?
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