Article April 4, 1983 Issue

How does your garden grow?

JOANNE BAER WOLF

The Gospel of Matthew records Christ Jesus' parable of how a farmer sowed good seed in his field, but while he slept, a foe sowed tares among the wheat. When the crop began to grow, the weeds appeared as well. Then the man wisely told his servants, "Let both grow together until the harvest." Matt. 13:30.

When growing, the tares—the undesirable weeds—can hardly be distinguished from the wheat. But at the harvest, when both have headed out, the tares cannot be mistaken for the wheat.

Here was food for thought. Tares and wheat growing side by side. Look-alikes—so close in proximity and appearance, so distant in their properties.

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