I’m beginning
this post having absolutely no idea what I’m planning to write about. “Planning” doesn’t even seem like the right
term, as there is currently no “plan.”
I just read a
text that said, “all labor produces profit,” and I got excited. I think often times we toil and work our
fingers to the nub and we get super frustrated when we don’t see any
fruits/results. We may slink away and sulk in
the corner asking, “What’s the point?”
Why the heck have we spent all that time planning (there’s that word
again), putting pen to paper, completing trial runs… Why have we bothered to
put our best foot forward if it wasn’t going to get us anywhere? Think about it. When you put gas in your car and later put
your foot on the accelerator, you fully expect to advance. Something would be terribly wrong if you did
both those things and you continued to sit idle. That’s about the time you contact your
mechanic saying, “Houston, we have a problem,” because as far as you know you
did what you were supposed to do, but nothing happened.
I would venture
to say that more often than not we feel like that in our own lives. “I did the work, but I got no results.” What’s up with that??
Well, I’m
here to pose an alternative methodology.
Let’s say your work/labor has, indeed, advanced you – you just may not
be able to see it yet. I talked about
seasons in a recent post, and I’m going to employ the same metaphor here just a
bit more literally. Let’s take Farmer
John -- now I’m gonna’ ask you to make a few allowances for me as I know
absolutely nothing about agriculture. I’m
sure I’m gonna misspeak more than once.
Don’t chop my head off for it.
Ok, so back
to Farmer John… Though he plants his
broccoli in late April – early May, he doesn’t expect a mature plant for 4-5
months. However, he’ll plant his bush
beans at the same time and those seeds will produce a mature plant within 60
days. Yet he can plant an avocado tree
at virtually any time during the year and he knows that it’ll take 3-5 years
for that tree to reach maturity.
Seasons. Though he’s doing the
work, the times at which he can visually see his “payoffs” are vastly different
for each seed that he sows. Are you with
me? ALL of his work is producing profit
even though he may not be able to see it right away. And for that avocado tree, he knows it’s
gonna be a while before it’s fully grown, and he never gives up on it. Day in and day out he tends to it. Months go by…years go by…and he remains
faithful to the tree as he knows the fruit it will bear.
We have to be
like Farmer John. You have to KNOW,
TRUST, and BELIEVE that all of your work will and DOES produce profit. Don’t buy the lie that you got knocked three
spaces back. Don’t buy it! Your life is no Monopoly game and shame on
anyone that has you believing otherwise.
If you put in work EXPECT to be advanced, whether you can see an
immediate change or not. Just expect it.
And be proud about it. You worked for God’s sake!! My goodness!
Don’t throw that away. Pat
yourself on the back and do more, because the more you do, the more you
get. What I’m telling you is that every
single seed you plant returns a harvest – you just have to be patient while the
plant matures.
My name is
Jasmynne Shaye, and this is me STEPPING
ON A FEW TOES.
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