“But Jesus goes on with the comparison to say that this mustard seed, the one that God’s realm is like, grows and grows. Birds come and nest there. This mustard provides shelter and becomes a home. It’s tiny, but it is persistent and healing and nutritional and beautiful and a little obnoxious, and it becomes more than anyone could have imagined for it.” –The Rev. Nikky Wood, sermon from the Ninth Sunday after Pentecost
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Image Credit: Church, Frederic Edwin, 1826-1900. Twilight in the Wilderness, from Art in the Christian Tradition, a project of the Vanderbilt Divinity Library, Nashville, TN. https://diglib.library.vanderbilt.edu/act-imagelink.pl?RC=58478