Article May 13, 1996 Issue

"Didst not thou sow good seed?"

Written for the Sentinel

It was 7 a.m. Just moments before, I had been thinking, "What a splendid morning!" And then, out of the blue, our teenage son verbally assaulted his father. An immediate, loud, and threatening altercation ensued.

Dazed, I found myself asking, "Where in the world did all this come from?" Immediately, the answer came into thought—it seemed almost audible: "An enemy hath done this."

I recognized these words as part of Christ Jesus' parable of the tares and wheat in the Bible (see Matt. 13:24–30). I almost laughed as I realized that the challenge was not really between parent and child. The challenge was to stay mentally and spiritually awake, to understand that the harmony of divine Love and its embrace of each individual are permanent. An eternal fact of God's spiritual creation, harmony cannot be assaulted. This impersonal attack truly had no source, no target or substance. That understanding enabled me to see that there was nothing to react to. The "enemy" was that which would deny the ever-presence of good, God.

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