The Parable of the Talents and Psalm 90: Trust in God helps advance the continuing creation

Yesterday's Gospel reading was the Parable of the Talents in Matthew 25.  Some observations:

• The two successful servants evidently trusted their master; they didn't seem to share their third colleague's 'knowledge' that the master was supposedly a harsh kleptocrat who reaped where he had not sown. Maybe the third servant had a warped view of things that caused him to fearfully hoard what he had instead of putting it to good use.

• I wonder if the manuscript of Matthew was badly edited:  Maybe those who will be given more aren't those who have, in the abstract, but those who specifically have trust in God, as the two successful servants had trust in their master. Likewise, for those who have nothing by way of trust in God, even what they do have in this world will inexorably be taken from them (as it will be from all of us):  by rust and moths (Matt. 6.19) and other agents of chaos, aka the Second Law of Thermodynamics.

• Our senior associate rector, Doug Richnow, preached on how awesome a God must be who created the billions and billions of stars, planets, and us.  He drew on Psalm 90 that's also in the day's readings, and on the evident fine-tuning of the universe's physical constants.  (No, he didn't argue against evolution.) Doug's sermon got me to thinking:  Taken together, Psalm 90 and the Parable of the Talents could be read as urging us to make the best use we can of whatever assets have been entrusted to each of us — not just because it pleases God in some vague and undefined way, but more specifically because that's how we do our jobs as created co-creators, laboring in the service of the continuing creation.  (I'm going to ask our music directors whether it was a coincidence that the closing hymn was Come, Labor On ....)