Looking for the right tree

Saturday, May 2, 2020

Have you ever shook a tree to allow the delicious goodies to fall on the ground? Maybe the fruit was still somewhat green and stuck to the branches more tenaciously. We had to be patient and wait, even though we felt we must hurry. We climbed the tree and we shook even harder. Still it yielded no fruit, yet. We finally gave up and tried another tree, rather than wait for the fruit to ripen in its own time. We looked in another field, in another location. There, the time was right and there was more ripe fruit, hanging from it. All we had to do was to gently move the limbs, and watch the goodies fall easily from that tree. with little effort from us. However those trees were scarce, and we had to search avidly hard to find them. They supplied riches with little work from us. "That's easy," we thought, so we kept searching for another, just right tree -- one that dropped its treasures with no waiting or labor from us. We stayed on the lower branches to get our reward, effortlessly. When we were forced to climb to higher branches on the tree to get the luscious reward, we walked away. We wiped our sweaty brow and began our scavenger hunt again, leaving the rest of the harvest behind -- before our basket was filled.

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