22nd July 2025
During a vigil holding up the plight of the Palestinian people in the absence of any concern during the debates at this month’s Church of England synod, someone spoke of ‘wasting love’. This I take to mean being so generous with love that it is poured out liberally, abundantly, with careless abandon, with no regard as to whether it is either earned by the recipient or likely to repaid. In other words to be as generous as God who daily wastes love on us.
In the parable of the sower and the seed, the behaviour of the sower might be seen as wasteful but maybe it is actually generous, casting the seed everywhere because the sower doesn’t prejudge where it will take root.
The Green Tau 