Insignificant and randomly dropped

Tuesday July 29th, Matthew 13: 31 He told them another parable: "The kingdom of heaven is like a mustard seed, which a man took and planted in his field. 32 Though it is the smallest of all your seeds, yet when it grows, it is the largest of garden plants and becomes a tree, so that the birds of the air come and perch in its branches." From my experience, I don’t know what Jesus is talking about here. I used to pull lots of mustard (see last week’s parable of the weeds) out of the oats when I was growing up on the farm, and it wasn’t much bigger than the grain. But hearing the parable contextually, perhaps we could substitute a Redwood seed for a mustard seed. The kingdom of heaven is like a small little thing that finds root and grows and grows and lives and lives. Or, the Kingdom of heaven is like an apple seed that grows into a full beautiful tree providing shelter and nourishment for all in the kingdom. The kingdom of heaven is like, and the list of trees and plants can go on and on and on, providing shelter, rest, nourishment, health, shade, and today, oxygen and at least a partial recovery from all the garbage we dump into the air. It all starts with a seed, small, seemingly insignificant, often dropped randomly rather than placed specifically and nurtured until it becomes nurturing. The kingdom of heaven is like………