A Second Law of The Harvest
The other day I told my wife “The apricot tree is loaded this year and they’ll be ripe soon.” But I was thinking ‘I hate picking those things…and we have so many other things to do. MaryAnn doesn’t like apricots much anyway. Maybe I’ll just let it slide this year.’ But this morning it hit me. I don’t know how to put it very poetically, but it went something like this ‘You idiot! The Lord is blessing you with a good batch of apricots. You may not think you need them now, but if you do, you’ll be glad to have them. If you want the Lord to bless you when you need things, better take ahold of what He’s blessing you with now. If He sees you thankfully accepting what He’s offering today, He’ll remember you when you really need something.’ Maybe I was remembering something my first father-in-law had said. He had grown up working for everything he had, spent some time as a US Soldier in a German prison camp during the last few months of “The War”, and raised nine children on a shoestring. My o...