Janet Mathistad is a Lutheran pastor in Minot, ND. She writes: "One aspect of this text that has interested me is that even in the good soil, there was such a difference of yields. I got an insight into one answer back in 1993, when I had just married my husband, who is a farmer.  That was the summer that the Mississippi River flooded, and our area of North Dakota received 13 inches of rain in June (our total average annual moi…