Though I have read the NT through many times I no longer turn to it. The strident voices of others have destroyed the Living Word contained in it. But I still love this little Parable of the Kingdom from St Marks Gospel....

St Mark 4:-

26 And he said, So is the kingdom of God, as if a man should cast seed into the ground;

27 And should sleep, and rise night and day, and the seed should spring and grow up, he knoweth not how.

28 For the earth bringeth forth fruit of herself; first the blade, then the ear, after that the full corn in the ear.

29 But when the fruit is brought forth, immediately he putteth in the sickle, because the harvest is come.