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Reading: Psalm 126

Father God,
I thank you for times of great joy,
when we experience your salvation
and your felt presence.
Help me to sow the seeds
of your gospel message today.
Lord, bring a harvest
through Jesus.
Amen.

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Then he [Jesus] told them many things in parables,
saying: “A farmer went out to sow his seed.
As he was scattering the seed,
some fell along the path,
and the birds came and ate it up.
Some fell on rocky places,
where it did not have much soil.
It sprang up quickly,
because the soil was shallow.
But when the sun came up,
the plants were scorched,
and they withered because they had no root.
Other seed fell among thorns,
which grew up and choked the plants.
Still other seed fell on good soil,
where it produced a crop—
a hundred, sixty or thirty times what was sown.
Whoever has ears, let them hear.”
(Matthew 13:3-9 NIV)*