The Reasons for Parables

The Reason for Parables
Matthew 13.10-17

We went out one windy day to plant a row of trees. The storms of the previous winter had damaged some of the oaks that surrounded the ancient church, and we had decided to remove them and plant new ones.

The actual planting was to be done by some local schoolchildren, aged between seven and nine. They had never planted trees before. Some of them, I think, had never before wondered how a tree came to be there. We stood beside the small holes already dug for the planting, looking at the trees that were still healthy and strong...

Taken from Matthew for Everyone – by Tom Wright