Living among weeds

Whatever harms life is alien to it. We don't come into this world with embedded seeds of self-destruction. God creates us for life, not death; for wholeness, not sickness; for happiness, not horror; for joy, not gloom; for hope, not despair; and for glory, not damnation.

Somewhere along the line things can go wrong. And when they do we shouldn't get too hot and bothered about rooting out the cause. To put it starkly, we need to be able to live with sin. Not in it, but with it.

For seriously minded people of faith that is possible. If God can live with weeds until the harvest, then so can we. So must we. They can't destroy the crop. No fear of that. But being violent with them will do more harm than good. So, cool it! God rules, not the weeds.

Fr Tom Cahill SVD,
Divine Word Missionaries,
Donamon, Co Roscommon