Saturday, September 15, 2018

  
The Fruit of the Tree

It’s Autumn and the harvest time,
when the apple trees are bearing
sweet fruit that’s worth a mile-long hike,
and the afternoon for sharing.

We will know the apple trees we seek
by the goodness they are yielding,
by the bounty that they have in store,
and the fragrance that is pleasing.

But the trees that have no tasty fruit
and are pleasant not for eyeing,
offer branches that are mostly bare,
and some look as though they’re dying!

In the rosy light, we’ll choose the best,
and our baskets we’ll be filling;
the love of Jesus in our hearts
will, with grace, be over-spilling!


But the fruit of the Spirit is love,
joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness,
goodness, faith, meekness, temperance:
against such there is no law.
Galatians 5:22-23 

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