Christ transforms, he is the catalyst of every change and evolution in our life. We come to this world in a weak, corruptible body that through the grace of Baptism receives in itself the strength and love of the Holy Spirit and the gift of adoption as a child of God. The sacramental grace is not visible, but it remains in us as a seed. Only after the physical death the invisible becomes visible to the person. That unvisible seed of the eternal life, sown into an invisible but eternal soul can grow in us and bring fruits of grace and love in us and for the others.
In the Gospel we find the same image of the seed. God sows, but just as the father of the prodigal son, He seemingly does nothing more to sustain that seed. He disperses the seed and goes away waiting only the harvest time. The soil is our heart and soul and he leaves to the heart of the person the wish and freedom to maintain, grow and cherish the received gift. God may seem mean to us like this. How can He expect only to come at the end of the times and collect the fruits without any personal effort? He even enrages if the fruit is missing or of bad quality. Ultimately, it is not just.
A tempted answer is, God has prepared the soil, whatever type of soil it is. He gives graces to the person through his Word, His Holy Spirit and the Church over that initially barren land of our heart. Do we accept and embrace those graces? Do we recognize them in our life? We should recognize the value of the seed we have received in our Baptism and cherish it by tilling the hard soil of our heart, by watering it with the gifts of the Holy Spirit and by pruning the unnecessary branches with the help of the Holy Catholic Church that offers us the Word of God, sacraments. These are the working tools. The work is hard and often painful. But if we only expect to see the seed grow without any personal effort, it is possible that the fruits will hardly or even never come. The personal involment and effort to follow God's deeds and plans is fundamental.
Only now we can understand that God is not mean. He accompanies us every day, every minute in our life. He expects us to grab his sowing hand and say: be with me all the days of my life.
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