Week 2 of The Slow Apprenticeship and the parable of the sower is really the parable of the soils. The variable is never the seed — it's always the ground. We look at the four conditions of every honest heart (path, rocky, thorny, good) and ask: what does it actually mean to tend the soil this week? The apprentice's work this week is not to manufacture growth, but to tend the conditions where the Spirit can do what only the Spirit can do.