When it comes to our soul many of us live as if everything

we learned in Sunday School was enough to get us through the daily struggles of

life. Some even leaven their soul unattended, or worse allow bad seed to make

its way in. As the Lord explains in the Parable of the Sower, our soul is at

times hard, rocky, filled with weeds, or even rich fertile soil, but it doesn’t

happen by itself. It requires work to improve the condition of our soul to

receive the Word of God, and it requires work to maintain a healthy soul. Luck

for us we have the Church and the way of life of Orthodox Christianity to work

our soul to prepare it for the Good Seed, the Word of God.