3rd Week of Lent – Thursday B
Through the Prophet Jeremiah, in today’s first reading, God expresses his dismay that so many times his voice, his words, have fallen on deaf ears. He tries to show us and tell us things, but we remain indifferent. We hear all kinds of homilies, great reflections, many times we even say we would love to implement something we have heard, yet what happens? As Jesus said in a parable, many times the seed (his words) fall into unfertile soil, or rocky ground, or among thorns, and somehow it is stifled, or stolen… plucked out of the hearts they were born in, by the evil one.