When I’m looking for God confirmation, my radar is activated when I see something more than once in a short span of time. Lately I have been seeing a graphic circulating social media about the fruit tree. That when frustrated about the lack of fruit in your life, keep in mind fruit is the last thing to appear on a fruit tree.

That really is encouraging.

God took it one step forward when He reminded me about last year. We have an apple tree and last year it yielded nothing. Zip. Nada.

Not only was there zero fruit, the tree looked dead. After so many NE Ohio storms that took out a few of our trees, I assumed this tree must have given up after so much adversity.

We talked about cutting it down, but decided against it. It’s a gorgeous tree and we didn’t want to get rid of it in case we were wrong.

I’m so glad we left it.

The picture you see is this year. We have SO many apples that our driveway and back yard is a land mine. If we aren’t stepping on apples, we are watching the bees who are all over the place. This week I gathered up the apples from the driveway and took them to our woods for the deer. That wagon is just from the driveway. There are so many from the yard, too. We left those for the rabbits and what other wildlife might show up. The deer probably smell the dogs, so we thought they deserved their apples in a place the dogs can’t get to.

This has been such an encouragement to my battle-weary soul

-The last thing to bear fruit on a fruit tree is fruit.

-We were ready to take out a tree that appeared dead after a season of adversity.

-The same tree this year has yielded the biggest crop of apples since we’ve lived here.

You don’t need me to tell you the last three years have been the toughest years we have known in quite some time. I raise my hand admitting I’ve felt dead after so many storms. Yet, things are shifting and I can see fruit bearing in my life and loved ones.

I’m so glad I didn’t give up.

Don’t you give up, either!

The best is yet to come.

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