Gathering Of The Fruit

Gathering Of The Fruit Life continues each day of its own volition. We cannot stop it, choke it into being silent, nor hurry the difficult days. We can grow in wisdom or with stubbornness remain blind. Many will sprout into adult divine maturity while others will be held back from clinging to human ideals. When life provides rewards we take them freely, but when life hurts we may easily reject all that is good and give up our spirit always at a cost. We may never understand the “Will of God” but we can with faith be spiritually awake to the many gifts of our days and nights. Delight in what is good, for the heart knows intuitively and intimately about love. When life strikes like a roaring lion, we should turn to the perceptive part of our souls for comfort and strength. An evil voice may be loud, threatening and persuasive but it is not stronger nor more powerful that the love of God. With faith and trust, let us instinctively gather the ripe fruit of our day and place it with hope into our harvest baskets leaving the spoiled so that they might pass away. Mark 4:26-34 Jesus said to the crowd, "The kingdom of God is as if someone would scatter seed on the ground, and would sleep and rise night and day, and the seed would sprout and grow, he does not know how. The earth produces of itself, first the stalk, then the head, then the full grain in the head. But when the grain is ripe, at once he goes in with his sickle, because the harvest has come." He also said, "With what can we compare the kingdom of God, or what parable will we use for it? It is like a mustard seed, which, when sown upon the ground, is the smallest of all the seeds on earth; yet when it is sown it grows up and becomes the greatest of all shrubs, and puts forth large branches, so that the birds of the air can make nests in its shade." With many such parables he spoke the word to them, as they were able to hear it; he did not speak to them except in parables, but he explained everything in private to his disciples.