the sower

I was teaching the kids about the parable of the sower and the seed recently. I am always struck by new insight's when I read this passage. I feel I better understand it each time. I came across this quote which provoked my thoughts further as I relates to the message that Jesus was trying to state in the story. In the story, the analogy is that the Word is the seed. I have also seen humans as being the seed.

"The seed cannot know what is going to happen, the seed has never known the flower. And the seed cannot even believe that he has the potentiality to become a beautiful flower. Long is the journey, and it is always safer not to go on that journey because unknown is the path, nothing is guaranteed.

Nothing can be guaranteed. Thousand and one are the hazards of the journey, many are the pitfalls - and the seed is secure, hidden inside a hard core. But the seed tries, it makes an effort; it drops the hard shell which is its security, it starts moving. Immediately the fight starts: the struggle with the soil, with the stones, with the rocks. And the seed was very hard and the sprout will be very, very soft and dangers will be many.

There was no danger for the seed, the seed could have survived for millennia, but for the sprout many are the dangers. But the sprout starts towards the unknown, towards the sun, towards the source of light, not knowing where, not knowing why. Great is the cross to be carried, but a dream possesses the seed and the seed moves." -Osho

The only difference I see with this quote and the story of the sower is that at the end the seed didn't know why it was moving toward the light. As followers of Christ we know who we're moving towards. The path is uncertain, the journey sometimes vague, but the end will be wonderfully the same.