“The kingdom of heaven is like a mustard seed, which a person took and sowed in his field; and this is smaller than all the other seeds, but when it is fully grown, it is larger than the garden plants and becomes a tree, so that the birds of the sky come up and nest in its branches.”
It is worth just contemplating what Jesus suggested. This very tiny seed when placed in the soil becomes possibly the largest garden plant that is big enough for birds to nest in and rest on.
As you may know, I previously considered how these tiny seeds have many of the components to grow into a full-grown plant. One of the things contained there is the information about what the plant will become. The plant that grows from the seed will obtain all the information it needs to become very much like the plant it originated from. The intelligence is in the seed – it’s a mind-blowing thought to consider.
Jesus once said, “The Kingdom of Heaven is within you.”
We always imagine that bigger is better and that the better is out there somewhere. But what if we thought more about source and origins and realized the nature of the universe is expanding. To find the origins, we must do wheat Jesus did and consider how the exceptionally large comes forth from the very small.
As we discover more about atomic and subatomic particles, we realize even at the smallest levels (even smaller than a mustard seed), we find connectedness and intelligence and energy. But this kind of examination takes patience and courage and faith!
- It is becoming clearer and clearer to me that we find God, not out there but in here.
- It is enlightening just to the think of the exceedingly small things that grow into the larger of things.
- It is humbling to think that these things continue to happen without much help from me.
- It is encouraging to know, like Jesus said, all these things are “near” or “at hand.”
This morning when I was meditating, the guide was encouraging us to focus our intuition on whatever was coming to mind. I wanted to discover something, but all I could see was the tiny mustard seed. It was almost unseeable, but part of me understood that this was a huge key to understanding everything.
I wish you well on your journey.
Be where you are, be who you are, be at peace,
Karl Forehand
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