A fruit tree has no trouble
bearing fruit. If it is rooted
well and if its branches aren’t inhibited from reaching upward, in due season,
it will bear fruit. It is
amazingly simple really. Stand in
the light, drink up the water available, and surely, the fruit will come forth,
each tree producing its kind.
Fruit trees aren’t frantically
running around worrying about bearing fruit or giving a certain amount of
it. They just, apparently, are
content to do the thing they were made to do. Under the care of a master gardener, who will watch over and
tend to, and occasionally prune it, the harvest can be vast, the taste juicy
and delicious.
When the branches become heavy
laden, only then do they start to be weighed down, but are now ready to give
the fruit away, making it accessible to those who cannot reach so high.
Perhaps if you are heavy laden
it is time to give something away, to offer some small part of what you’ve been
given. It is in the giving that
you will have achieved your own purpose.
We don’t become who we were meant to be by accumulating all the things
that build some kind of kingdom of our own. We become by what we make available to others from the gift
we’ve been given. Just give it
away. You don’t have to measure it
out or hold any back. A tree does
not need its own fruit for nourishment.
It draws its life from outside of itself and can give all it produces
away.
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