This is one of the pineapple plants we planted nine months back in our garden. It is now bearing its fruit. Anna and I watch over this pineapple fruit as squirrels, rodents and birds are fond of them.
As we watched the row of pineapple plants grow since we planted them, our longing was to see them bear fruit. Almost every day we inspected to look for the fruit. I still remember the delight with which Anna came back one morning after seeing the fruit in one of them!
Our lives take a new meaning when we long for something. We become diligent, proactive and enthused to do what we can, to get a favourable outcome from what we do.
I wonder whether anxiety subsumes hope! What anchors our lives is hope, no matter how adverse the circumstances may be for the time being! Because we are people who thrive when consumed by hope, let me suggest that we do what ever we do, to bear fruit. An athlete according to St Paul prepares himself to get a ‘crown’, which is a good testimony to the hopes with which he or she trains for the race.
As Anna and I live in a new culture in ‘god’s own country’, I realise how the common table conversations can turn to be pessimistic.
A medical student came and described to us recently how he visits a children’s home fairly regularly because he wants to make a small difference by singing for them and playing with them. This story encouraged us because he although is young, is hopeful and enterprising!
Let us so work that our efforts bear fruit!
M.C.Mathew(picture and photo)
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