Small seeds, big results
Pentecost 3, 2021 sermon Delivered at St. Paul's Episcopal Church, Louisville KY Texts: https://www.lectionarypage.net/YearB_RCL/Pentecost/BProp6_RCL.html My nephew was recently on an epic vacation with a friend, and one of the pictures he posted on Facebook was of the trees in the northern California Redwood forest. He was near the tallest tree in the world named Hyperion that is 380 feet tall. That is 3 times longer than this sanctuary. Redwoods are the tallest trees in the world, and their height and size make them truly impressive. When I was in the Seattle area on vacation years ago, I was in awe of the size of the trees in the Olympic rain forest. They were huge compared to what I was used to. Note that what I have described was greater, the most, the first of the trees of the world. When I flew home to Louisville from Seattle, the trees here seemed so small, so short. Did that mean that they were less than the enormous fir trees in Washington? The three readings today ali