The Parable of the Sower - The Seed of Faith in Ex-Spouses and in Ourselves

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What happens to the seeds that fall to you?
Matthew 13: 3-8

After my husband left, I spent hours, or was it days, weeks, or even months, wondering what had happened to his faith. Despite going through 12 years of Catholic school, his faith in God was weak. He'd claimed I brought him to faith and then ruined faith for him, but as I look back over the years at red flags I should have taken more notice of and at my own weaknesses, my own feeble faith, I wonder about the seeds each of us sowed and at the ground those seeds were planted in.

If I follow his suggestion that my leading him to faith planted the Seed of the Word of God in him, then I also found myself asking…


Was he the path and were the birds who came to eat up the little bit of faith I'd planted, devils of temptation in the forms of greed, lust, and pride?

And why did I stop at just a little bit of seed? Why hadn't I planted so much seed that it couldn't be stolen away?
Was he the rocky ground, his faith able to spring up but unable to take root in a heart hardened and scarred beyond what I could repair?
Should I have looked for a more open, richer, more giving soil to trust my harvest to in the first place? Should I have turned more to God and asked more for His help? Did I think I was the sower?

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