How generous is God?  Completely opposite to the stingy and demanding God so many people outside of Christianity (and unfortunately sometimes within) often paint him as.  If you had any doubts, Jesus’ teaching in today’s Gospel reading of the workers in the vineyard leaves us in no doubt that God is generous and faithful, and long-suffering and forgiving of so much of our envy and pettiness (Matthew 20:1-16).  Whether you are a ‘lifer’, a recent convert, or someone coming back to faith, God will be faithful.. and he will continue exhorting all of us to join his faithfulness and generosity in that vineyard – the vineyard made possible by the generosity of his Son Jesus Christ.