A Handful of Wheat

June 20, 2009

Dear Fellow Travelers,
This quote is also from de Mello’s book, “The Song of the Bird” (p. 47): A handful of wheat, five thousand years old, was found in the tomb of one of the kings of ancient Egypt. Someone planted the grains and, to the amazement of all, the grains came to life.”
This is his comment: “I used to think the words of Scripture were dead and dry. I know now that they are full of energy and life. But it was my heart that was stony and dead, so how could anything grow there?”
This is my thought: there have been many times in the life of every believer, when the Scriptures seemed to be void of life, but inevitably He would plant them into our hearts and, lo and behold, they would come to life within us and for us.
Things really are not what they seem! Regardless of how they might appear on any given day, or in any given circumstance, His words are always full of energy and life—His life!
You think about that-