BE FRUITFUL IN=THE WAYS OF GOD

 

BE FRUITFUL=IN

(The Ways of the LORD)!

 

HOW do you feel=about

Your life?=Do you feel

Your life=has been FRUITFUL?

 

Today we read SOME SCRIPTURE=about

Something that may NOT

Have been FRUITFUL?

 

“Then the vineyard owner=LOOKED FOR

The crop of grapes=but what it yielded

Was wild grapes?”                                                                                                                    Isaiah 5:2

 

And isn’t=that the way

IT SOMETIMES HAPPENS=in this life

 

WE PLAN=for our lives=to go

A certain way=but they

OUR PLANS=go awry

 

I PLANNED=for a family

And a career=but what I got

WAS a life=steeped in=THE WAYS OF GOD

 

And you know what=I wouldn’t TRADE

Places back=BE FRUITFUL IN

The WAYS OF GOD!

 

“God blessed them=and said’=

‘BE FRUITFUL=and increase in numbers=

And fill

 

The water in the seas=and let

The birds=increase on the earth’”                                                                                               Genesis 1:22

 

“He cuts off=every branch=in me

That BEARS NO FRUIT=while every branch

THAT DOES BEAR FRUIT=he prunes

So that=it will be=EVEN MORE FRUITFUL”                                                                             John 15:2

 

How do you FEEL=about your life

Has it been FRUITFUL=in

The WAYS of God?

 

FRUITFUL in the Ways=of the world?

Is there=something you wish

Could change?

 

I am NOT HAPPY=not

Having a family=or a career=but

I have had so many=GREAT FAMILY MEMORIES=

With my parents=with my sisters=with

MY EXTENED family=and friends

 

And I have been GIVEN=the

WORD OF GOD=for my life=BE FRUITFUL IN!

(The WAYS OF GOD)

 

“ALL THE WAYS=of the Lord

Are loving=and faithful=toward those who

Keep the demands=of his covenant”                                                                                           Psalm 25:10

 

“For my thoughts=are

Not your thoughts=Neither are YOUR WAYS

MY WAYS=declares the Lord”                                                                                                     Isaiah 55:8

 

THE TRUTH IS=no matter

What our lives contain=or don’t

 

We are FRUITFUL=when

We are LOVING GOD=and loving others

And putting God and family

IN FIRST PLACE=in our lives

 

Dear lord=we pray=HELP US

To bear YOUR FRUIT in abundance today=

And all the days of our lives

BE FRUITFUL IN!

(The WAYS of our Lord)

 

In Jesus’ name=and in the name=of our always loving=and FOREVER FRUITFUL

Holy Father God!

 

Robert P. Wallman

9-11-2023

 

 

Ps        INSPIRED=by an article=IN LIVING FAITH MAGAZINE=by Msgr. Stephen J. Rossetti