The art of tares and wheat

It is amazing that the tares and the wheat are meant to grow together, at least for now.

It is even more amazing that this state of affairs is a picture of the Kingdom of Heaven.

We want our kingdom of heaven to be simpler, purer. We want the tares to be gotten rid of now. We want chords that resolve; vistas that balance; lines that rhyme. We want a peaceable kingdom within the frame.

But the true Kingdom of Heaven is more "modern art" than that.

Jesus never did frame anything, but simply made art out of the hodgepodge of life that is at hand.

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Matthew 13.24-30 Another parable He put forth to them, saying: "The kingdom of heaven is like a man who sowed good seed in his field; but while men slept, his enemy came and sowed tares among the wheat and went his way. But when the grain had sprouted and produced a crop, then the tares also appeared. So the servants of the owner came and said to him, 'Sir, did you not sow good seed in your field? How then does it have tares?' He said to them, 'An enemy has done this.' The servants said to him, 'Do you want us then to go and gather them up?' But he said, 'No, lest while you gather up the tares you also uproot the wheat with them. Let both grow together until the harvest, and at the time of harvest I will say to the reapers, "First gather together the tares and bind them in bundles to burn them, but gather the wheat into my barn." '"