I traveled to Uganda several years ago and while there our short-term missions team visited a few small villages. One day as we walked from one village to another we approached a vast field full of some high-growing crop which stood before us as a sea of green. As we drew closer, one narrow footpath emerged, a trail of beaten-down brown where no life grew, splitting the fertile crop in two. I thought of this Ugandan footpath as I read the parable of the sower recently.  Have you heard this lesson taught by Jesus as he sat in a boat on the sea?