So ……! After all the prayer, and the promises. After all the reflection and communion with God, we finally get to start producing some fruit. Figs so round and filled with sweetness that we can almost taste the day they will ripen, and we can harvest the fruits of our faith. And then along comes an unexpected visitor that does the harvesting for us. We get annoyed and sometimes angry that this unwelcome intruder has ‘stolen’ our fruit. Yet, if we paused to think, could it be possible that we do not and should not have control over who gets to eat the fruit that God has cultivated in our garden. Gardening with God may at times be frustrating when it does not go according to our plan. If we keep going back to the prayer, reflection and communion we will know to produce fruit was our purpose, the Holy Spirit will sort out the rest.
