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  Dear Lord, grant us patience for today to navigate any challenges we encounter as your Church. With You by our side, nothing is impossible. We pray for Your Holy Spirit to fill us with grace and patience, so we may end the day with our heads held high. We entrust all to You, Lord. Amen. (https://www.crosswalk.com/faith/prayer/10-prayers-for-patience.html#google_vignette) In today’s gospel reading we encounter two parables on the subject of the seed being put together.  If you still recall, last year I preached on the parable of the Mustard Seed and this year I am focusing on the first parable of the;  Growing Seed.    The picture we get in this parable is of a farmer who has sown the seed and then does nothing to it until harvest time. In our contemporary world, that will be a bad example of what is expected in farming. Instead, he sleeps and wakes up night and day as if nothing has happened, and he does not bother about the seed which he has sown on the ground. If you analyze Jesus’

  Today marks 80 years since the D-Day invasions by the allied forces by both air and sea to drive out the Nazi forces. This was the world's bravest operation as 150 000 allied soldiers stormed Normandy from five beaches namely Omaha, Juno, Sword, Utah and Gold. June 6, 1944 will remember engraved in the memories of many people as they try to imagine how the atmosphere was on that particular day. This was an operation that came with a price as an estimate between 5000-12000  allied forces died on the day while between 4000-9000 German soldiers also died.  As I was following some of the live coverage proceedings of the celebrations today, several reflections developed in my mind. Firstly, seeing the remnants of that operation who are now in the late 90s and early 100s I wonder how they managed to deal with these horrific memories of this day for 80 years. Listening to their passion narratives of the operation, one can vividly imagine how suicidal was it. Secondly, how did the famili