Mountain laurel grows wild and unattended.
The chair in the corner was my father's chair. There he read newspapers and books. He also kept in the stand there two small prayer books from which I saw him read every day. I don't recall his ever telling me what they were, but somehow I knew that he was praying.
Mark has only two of Jesus' parables about the Reign of God (the Greek word usually translated "Kingdom" refers, not to a place but to the act of ruling.) One is about seeds growing without the farmer knowing how; the other is about tiny seeds producing a large plant (4:26-32.) God extends his rule over each of us and all of us slowly in powerful ways that we do not notice.
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