Object: A package of seeds.

Lesson: Then he told them many things in parables, saying: "A farmer went out to sow his seed." (vs 3)

Do any of you ever help your parents when they are out working in the yard? There is always a lot of work to do to keep your yard looking great. You have to mow and trim the lawn. You have to rake up leaves in the fall. In the spring, when everything is coming to life again after the winter, you have to plant seeds in the garden to produce the flowers and vegetables we will enjoy all summer.

We have flowers up here at the altar every Sunday. We have a local flower shop deliver them on Saturday afternoon so that the altar looks beautiful each Sunday morning. But instead of going through all that work of having the flowers delivered each week, I was thinking i…