It is very easy to see ourselves as these rotten grapes but consider another lesson we can learn from this story. The man in the story has worked his vineyard, does all he can do and still his plans do not come to fruition. Many of us would become frustrated as Isaiah feels and would want to tear down the wall around our own vineyard and let our work be trampled down.
That is not what Jesus would want us to do. Our second reading from The Letter to the Philippians reminds us that for the times which seem the darkest and hardest, we should pray to God with our petitions and in thanksgiving. We are to keep our hearts and minds on those things that we know to be true, honorable and pure. When we do this, our hardships will be lessened, our anxieties will be washed away and the peace of God will be in our hearts.
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