A Positively Poetic Priest

I can't wait for the summer fruit to arrive. Rich juicy strawberries perfectly crunchy grapes with cool refreshing insides peaches with tangy sweet juice running down my fingers tomatoes redder than the new fire hydrants blueberries to stain my fingers ripe wild raspberries Today Jesus gives us a parable with very summery imagery. We aren't quite there yet, and with the snow flakes of this morning, we have to continue waiting, patiently and impatiently. This morning's imagery gives us a view into how Jesus sees our relationship to God. God is the vine-grower,  Jesus is the vine, we are the branches. We are called to bear fruit, through the help of Jesus and God. Jesus intends us to see ourselves as part of this metaphor, to see ourselves as part of the process of the kingdom of God. We are the branches, reaching out into the world, bearing good fruit for God and spreading the bountiful gifts that God gives through the fruits th...

Fruit on the table    Cool, fresh, and available Fruit on the vine    Ripe, ready, and rolling Fruit of the Loom    Comfy, silky unseen Fruit of your loins    Deceptively cute and unkind Fruit of the Spirit    Temperance remembered Fruit of the past    An architect's dream    An historian's playground    Nature's rich memoir While simply fruit scatters the seeds