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It’s strawberry season, and to celebrate the release of The Little Pot book, we’ve planted strawberry plants in our own (little) pots. The plants have been doing great. They sit on my deck and have been blooming and bearing fruit. However, just as the flowers begin to turn into berries, they disappear off the stem. We’ve discovered that an animal has been visiting and eating the berries even before they ripen all the way.
I’ve been thinking about how that so represents my life. Sometimes I begin to bear fruit. I find myself in a situation where I know God is preparing me to do something. -Show goodness to someone-
but before I allow that fruit to ripen completely, something steals it away. I never have the oppotunity to use the fruit as it was intended because I’ve allowed an outside force to interfer with it’s growth.
God allows us to bear fruit. He expects us to bear fruit. In the Bible he curses a fig tree because it does not bear fruit, So I know He expects us to. But sometimes, we begin to do what it takes to grow fruit and before it is fully ripe, we allow something to come along and steal it.
For our little strawberry plants on the deck, it is an animal. But for the fruit we bear for God, it might be someone’s opinion of us, a busy schedule, a lack of faith. What is it that keeps you from not just trying to bear fruit -but from allowing the fruit to ripen and be used as God intended it?
We have a responsibility to protect ourselves from outside forces so that the fruit we bear can fully ripen and be used by the potter.
I think I am beginning the ideas for another story with Little Pot. Feel free to brainstorm with me. I’d love to hear your thoughts.
