Monthly Archive for October, 2008
Once there was a traveler who was walking in a field. Why he was in that field, I do not know. Whether there were others with him in the field, I also do not know. In any case, he alone found that there was treasure buried there.
What is it about this man which enabled him to recognize that there was treasure buried there? Furthermore, what is it about this man that enabled him to recognize the value of this treasure? For in his immense joy over what he had found, he re-buried the treasure and went and sold all that he had. Why? Not just to cart the treasure away, but to buy the whole field.
Now the treasure he found was the Kingdom of Heaven, but what exactly is that? Can we see it? Can it be found on the journey that we are on? Would we rightly estimate it’s value if we did find it?