if i could i would break into flower
if i could i would no longer be barren The Holy Gospel according to St. Luke ! When Jesus wants to light a fuse and then leave the room; he tells a parable… We hear this parable of the barren fig tree, and even before Jesus has abruptly finished, we assume we’ve gotten the moral of his little life-lesson. The landowner is God, of course . Jesus is the gardener, trying to convince an angry God to wait a little longer before he callously has the tree cut down and tossed on the heap. Like most assumptions, this one only holds so long as we don’t give it too much though… Is the landowner’s character really so similar to God’s? Is the behavior of the landowner faithful to the witness of God we have in Jesus? What if God isn’t the landowner at all? What if we are? What if you are? After all, aren’t we the ones who get impatient ? Aren’t we the one’s who demand to see the tree bear fruit right now , darn it! Aren’t we the one’s who think we’re t...