When I start to get discouraged in my work, my friend Lindsee always reminds me to "keep my hands to the plow." For a long time, I pictured myself mowing my field—leaving a perfectly manicured, green lawn behind me. But one day it struck me: a plow is not a lawn mower. A plow doesn't manicure the lawn. A plow plucks up the dirt, turns over the soil, leaves behind what looks like destruction. Unplowed ground to the untrained eye always looks more pleasant! Unplowed ground, however, isn't prepared to sustain life. It isn't prepared to receive from the Giver of Life. A good farmer knows that the condition of the soil is critical for the success of the crop. In this episode, we'll consider the state of the soil of our lives in light of the parable of the sower from Luke 8. Is our land packed hard with old habits, like a well-worn but infertile path? Are there rocks of disappointment, doubt, or disillusionment in these fields that need to be revisited and removed? Have thorns grown up and choked out the life that longs to live here? The secret to good soil is not that it is inherently better: it is that it is tended. Show Notes

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