Today’s parables feature a farmer with a tiny mustard seed, a baker with a small amount of yeast, and a widow who won’t leave the town judge alone. Each of them, in their own way, illustrate the same basic truth: Things don’t have to be bigger in order to be better. Instead, Jesus wants us to know that God is always at work, often in imperceptible ways, to cause his plan for the world to come to fruition. We just need to be willing to wait for God to do his work.