Jeremiah 14: 17-22; Psalm 79; Matthew 13: 36-43
It seems that in the first part of our Jeremiah reading that God is speaking, weeping over the destruction of God’s people. Then we speak, with Jeremiah: “Have you struck us down?…we look for peace…for a time of healing…we set all our hope on you.” How much God must love the humility in this line from the psalm: “Let your compassion come speedily to meet us for we are brought very low.” Jesus explains the parable of the wheat and weeds, comparing the wheat to the children of the kin-dom and the weeds as the evil ones. When the harvest comes and the two are separated, “the just shall shine like the sun in the kin-dom…” Are you just? Ask for that gift, to discern what is just and what makes God weep. Where are God’s tears falling today? For what are you looking? Peace, healing – what? For the world and for yourself? Tell God your great desires.
Let your compassion come speedily, for we are brought very low. Deepen our trust in you and our hope for world peace. Heal us, holy healer, that we may be truly kin.