GOOD FRUIT?

GOOD FRUIT? PICTURE this: You are ALIVE Some 2,000 years ago And there is a man Sitting in a boat SPEAKING to you in parables “But some seed Fell on rich soil- And produced fruit.........” Matthew 13:8 How creative of Jesus To speak from a boat To the people on shore And oh so CREATIVE To speak in parables THIS is a parable about you Jesus is the FARMER And you are the seed But what kind of seed Are you? Will you GROW into The GOOD FRUIT of God? And if you do Will you PRODUCE good fruit For God and Jesus? Jesus has sown you Into this world You have been CREATED-by God And sent into the world To do GOOD Will you? “For what you have done I will ALWAYS praise you In the presence Of your faithful people And I will HOPE In your name For your name is GOOD” Psalm 52:9 “A person finds joy In giving an apt reply_ And how GOOD Is a timely word” Proverbs 15:23 “Love must be SINCERE- Hate what is evil- CLING to what is GOOD” Romans 12:9 WE-just like the seed- Have had our share Of being in the wrong place At times during our life When we Have had our share of problems We KNOW the difficulty Of TRYING to thrive On rocky ground WHEN we have been tangled up In the thorns But we have FOUGHT through The difficult moments Of our life With God's HELP And the help of others And learned to thrive And GROW anyway The important thing Isn't where we have been The important thing is WHERE We are and where we are going to And that we grow into The good fruit of the Lord And that we help others GROW into the good fruit Of the Lord “That person Is like a tree Planted-by streams of water Which yield its fruit In season And whose leaf Does not wither- WHATEVER they do PROSPERS” Psalm 1:3 “A shoot WILL come up From the stump of Jesse From its roots A BRANCH will bear fruit” Isaiah 11:1 I hope and PRAY That you are ONE of the GOOD FRUIT Of God and Jesus Robert P. Wallman 7-19-16 Ps INSPIRED by an article in LIVING FAITH MAGAZINE by Sr. Macrina Wiederkehr, O.S.B.