After I posted yesterday, I went to do my usual morning duty of pottying the dogs (a Boston Terrier named Sassy, 12 yrs. old and a yellow lab, 18 mos. old named Squirt) and picking up more pecans. I never knew one pecan tree could produce so MANY pecans.
As I was picking up the 100 pecans that were on the ground yesterday (Oh my aching back) a funny thought occurred to me related to yesterday's post. You see, everyone around us were picking up pecans at Thanksgiving and all I could find were these pods from outer space all over the ground. My husband informed me that those were green pecans that you don't eat. I decided then and there that there would be no edible pecans again this year. So I started to ignore the stupid tree and go on with my life.
Then came the first of MANY windstorms and there were pecans all over the ground. I can remember one day that both my husband and I picked up 300 pecans each. And we have picked up pecans every day since that first windstorm.
Now for the funny part. The person who believed from the center of her being that nothing useful would ever come from this tree (we've lived here four years and nary a pecan have we seen) is now appointed chief squirrel. Oh my husband will pick up the ones on the driveway and sometimes right around the tree (three feet from the driveway) but he leaves the rest of the picking up to me, the one with no patience, the one that thought the tree was useless and lazy and not worth the ground it took up.
See, God does have a sense of humor. I told Him that the tree was a useless waste of my time and He showed me the abundance of His provision for me. I had no patience and He showed me what I would have missed if I had refused to wait for it.
The same thing applies to people. Just when we decide that they will never amount to anything, God goes to work and all of a sudden, they become what God meant for them to be. Notice I said God not me. God doesn't give two hoots and a holler (not bad for a city girl, huh?) what I want because I don't know everything He knows. My job is to wait while He works.
Do you have the patience to wait for God to make things right with the one you love? Just like me and the pecan tree, maybe we all just need to wait. By the way, anyone need any pecans?
2 comments:
Very nice blog with much food for thought .. Lord, give me patience and give it to me, NOW! Have a Happy New Year.
One of my favorite phrases is "all of a sudden", as you just talked about.Sometimes it seems like God does things all of a sudden; but then we find out He was growing love all along!
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