"You Reap What You Sow?" - Matthew 25:14-30 - (November 19, 2023 - Pentecost 25)

<p>Pause for a moment and think about a most beloved gift you’ve received.  For me, it was a camera.  I always played around with my dad’s camera, my mom’s camera, my dad’s Bell and Howell 8mm movie camera – not video.  Finally, when I was thirteen, my parents gave me a Honeywell Pentax Spotmatic 500 Single-Lens Reflex with a screw-thread lens mount developed by Zeiss and Praktika corporations during World War II. </p> <p>Sharing joy is one part of the message in our parable of the Talents this morning.  The way Jesus tells this parable, it flows out of the prior parable; the parable of the Ten Virgins.  It lets us know we should consider this parable as an extension to the parable of the Ten Virgins.</p>