God Also Wants Lazy People

Hearing today's Gospel, we might feel some injustice as those who worked for ten hours in the vineyard receive the same recompense as only an hour. What amazes me, however, is that the landowner is relentless in his search for workers, which yields both responsible ones who are ready to work at dawn and lazy ones who don't bother to get out of bed most of the day. Obviously the quality of work will be affected. Yet, we learn something about God from this: God loves all of his children and wants all of his children with him in his kingdom and is relentless in his search -- going out at six and nine and noon and three and five -- to track down every one.