He Knows Not How: Monday of Rogationtide (Mark 4:26-32)
"The seed sprouts and grows; he knows not how." Mark 4:27. The farmer does not make the seed grow. He cannot watch it happen and intervene. He scatters, sleeps, and in the morning there is a blade where yesterday there was bare ground. Rogation Day I: the growth is in God's hands, not ours.