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A Signature on the Heart
Jeremiah 31:31-34 John 12:20-33
This saying of Jesus that we have just heard and sung is one that has always captured my imagination. “Unless a grain of wheat falls into the earth and dies, it remains just a single grain; but if it dies, it bears much fruit.” An organic, agricultural metaphor. What could be a more natural process? St. Jacobs is a community with a strong farming history, and the landscape outside of town remains a patchwork of fields where each year seed is planted and left to grow. We know how this works. A seed won’t do you much good if you clutch it in your hand. For it to be fruitful, for it to grow and become something incalculably more than it’s current form, you’ve got to dig a hole, drop it in the ground and bury it six inches under. You’ve got to let go of the seed, release it, lose sight of it, and hope that by some miracle God will make it grow. There’s no more natural process, but what could be a more un-natural movement of transformation. You want life, growth, fruit? Then let that seed go and let it die in the dirt.
