Country life was foreign to us. We had come from Seattle; tall buildings, cement sidewalks, everything from derelicts to business people passing us by, daily.
That first winter on our property, a blizzard came. The snow covered the ground for weeks. When it melted, we realized we lost a few trees, while other branches hung lifeless.
We expected no fruit after such a terrible winter of snow and wind.
But quite the opposite happened.
Fruit flooded our trees that spring like red and green Christmas ornaments, overtaking the sky after that long, cold winter. Apples, pears, and cherries even surprised us, showing up on trees we hadn’t even anticipated bearing fruit.
And I think we can be like that while living missionally, judging fruit-bearing potential by how hard our season has been; thinking hard winters destroy potential, when quite the opposite can happen, if we let it.
I got online after our five acres had so much fruit we couldn’t pick it all that spring. I learned the harder the winter, often the more abundant the blossoming, come spring.
And although…
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What an honor it is to join, Laura Krokos, and so many amazing women over at Missional Women this month.
Oh, and did you know, Missional Women are having their incredible, Missional Women Conference in Denver, Colorado, coming April 15-16.
I’ll be leading a seminar on foster and adoption. There will also be some remarkable keynote speakers, such as Laura, Judy Douglas, Mariah McCleary, and some other incredible women.
If you want more information, please, stop by and check out this life-changing conference, here.
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Thanks for sharing that about fruit. Never heard it, but I know some years our fruit is so abundant and others hardly anything here in Texas. We blame the bad years on storms or late frosts, but now I wonder. We had a very warm winter so it will be interesting to see what the trees do this year.