Wheat and the weeds.

Yeah, I can be one evil jackass. At least in my thoughts. Occasionally in action.

Today's reading in Church was the parable about how someone's wheat field was sown (by an enemy of the farmer) with weeds, and how the farmer had to let the weeds grow along with the wheat, since pulling up the weeds might destroy the roots of the wheat, too.

We're all wheat and weeds. We're all good and evil. It just depends on which part we nourish, and which part we try to redirect. This is the goal of my spiritual life, my family life, and my work life.

I know people who focus on the weeds. They're stuck in a self-deprecating, endlessly-circling-back series of laments about what's WRONG. True, maybe, but there's wheat in there, too. And to focus on the good strengthens it, as well.

I'm not very consistent about the spiritual action required to take steps on my spiritual path... but hell, I'm trying. And, I think, improving.

Rock on.