mustard seed

Tanya and Tom on the River Trail

The old story goes that "If you have even as much faith as mustard seed you can move mountains".

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Tanya and I have been walking a river path near our apartment for the last few months and one of things we have done to make the walk more fun is to identify all the wild plants we saw on our walks.

One of the plants we identified is the wild mustard.

It grows fast in spring and develops lots of little very bright yellow flowers--then as the weather dries it forms little seed cases, I guess you could call them--and now in July that they are good and dry we broke one of the cases open to inspect the seeds.

Those seeds are REALLY small!!!

Surely a person could develop THAT much faith in a lifetime!

Surely so!

Of course the mustard seed in the story is a metaphor and surely the mountain in the story is a metaphor.

BUT--also surely faith (whatever that means to you) is more than a metaphor.

So why not?

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