Faith is a mysterious gift of God. It comes to us and we need to nourish it. But we can take it for granted and when we do, it withers and it can die. That this parable in here so early the first of the Gospels ever composed underlines to us that there is nothing new in how fickle and superficial we are. But whether fickle or fully developed in our faith, the challenge is the same: humbly ask God to grow what little faith we have.