Working for the harvest

Notes of meeting on 29 July 2014

Picture of people gathering in the wheat which was ripe and fully laden.
The workers were gathering the sheaves and bringing them to a beautiful young woman dressed in workers clothes and a scarf around her head. She was happy with the yield.
The woman was our Blessed Mother and she gathered up the sheaves and presented them to her Son and they both were happy and joyous.
Jesus then directed his Mother to other fields and so the workers joined her in harvesting these crops also, some were good, some variable but all were gathered in joy. Even he crops that were of poor quality or diseased were saved by the diligent application of the workers.

It was felt that Jesus was saying to us that if we work through Mary even hopeless cases can be saved. She, under the direction of her Son, works so hard to save all her children.

Luke 18 v 1 -8
¹ Then he told them a parable about the need to pray continually and never lose heart.
² 'There was a judge in a certain town,' he said, 'who had neither fear of God nor respect for anyone.
³ In the same town there was also a widow who kept on coming to him and saying, "I want justice from you against my enemy!"
⁴ For a long time he refused, but at last he said to himself, "Even though I have neither fear of God nor respect for any human person,
⁵ I must give this widow her just rights since she keeps pestering me, or she will come and slap me in the face." '
⁶ And the Lord said, 'You notice what the unjust judge has to say?
⁷ Now, will not God see justice done to his elect if they keep calling to him day and night even though he still delays to help them?
⁸ I promise you, he will see justice done to them, and done speedily. But when the Son of man comes, will he find any faith on earth?'

Galatians 5 v 18 - 26
¹⁸ But when you are led by the Spirit, you are not under the Law.
¹⁹ When self-indulgence is at work the results are obvious: sexual vice, impurity, and sensuality,
²⁰ the worship of false gods and sorcery; antagonisms and rivalry, jealousy, bad temper and quarrels, disagreements,
²¹ factions and malice, drunkenness, orgies and all such things. And about these, I tell you now as I have told you in the past, that people who behave in these ways will not inherit the kingdom of God.
²² On the other hand the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, trustfulness,
²³ gentleness and self-control; no law can touch such things as these.
²⁴ All who belong to Christ Jesus have crucified self with all its passions and its desires.
²⁵ Since we are living by the Spirit, let our behaviour be guided by the Spirit
²⁶ and let us not be conceited or provocative and envious of one another.