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Peaches and Other Fruit

The little Red Haven peach tree has grown up. This year it has produced enough juicy red globes to fill almost 30 quart bags for the freezer. It is really amazing what can happen with time and growth. The fruit is sweet. The tree started out quite small, but each year seemed to produce a few more peaches. Each peach was savored and enjoyed, but there was never enough to save for the winter, until this year. We ate until juice was dripping from our elbows and our sticky smiles beamed. This is good. This is what a peach tree is for, and it is worth the wait. There is a plum tree in the yard that has not produced a single fruit in the same amount time, not even a single blossom. There are leaves, but that is all. It seems such a waste, to be a fruit tree and not bear fruit. I wonder if my life is producing any fruit. God's purpose for my life is to "Bear much fruit." John 15:8. I have had many years of receiving nourishment for God's word, but is the effect s...

Dwell on Light

Time alone with God morning light dawns in my heart a new day Petunia petals a light with morning freshness capture my eye, capture my thoughts. I choose to dwell on light, light through the window, light on a face, light words from the throne, words of grace, light, power, energy, transform my thoughts, transform my face, enlighten the whole room every corner, every being brighter, catching sparkles, thoughts dancing around YOU, Great God, Source of my light. I am singing with "grace in my heart to the the Lord". (See Colossians 3:16.)