My grandfather, a farmer, had chosen mango plantation over maize and sorghum whose yield would be realized faster. He did not actually do for him but for the generation whom he envisaged would lack fruits for better living in the future. His future was us;That is me and you.
One Saturday morning I went to the plantation and looking at the the old mango tree, I was filled with excitement of ripe yellow fruits hanging as if begging to go home. They flatteringly begged me to free them, detach them from the mother and go home to exercise their purpose- that of enriching life.
The unfortunate thing is that some of the hanging fruits were not ripe. I touched one and asked myself as if in conversation with the silent fruits. "why would it be that you are from the same plant, same branch and the bundle with the same provisions and you still not ripe?
Then I smiled... would it because they want to be picked tomorrow? or a later date? Good idea. What if they were all ripe the same day? There would be a surplus, and some would be rotten
and eventually wasted at the detriment of future need.
The Lesson
The Mango farmer who happens to be my grandpa selflessly mind about the future of his children, He is LIFE. He then imparts life into every human.
The fruits are us. We have different timing of achieving full potential. If you don't get it today. Be sure it is for the good of tomorrow. Be happy for those who get it today for if you all got it the same time, you might just be the unlucky one...not chosen and you would fade away.
Thank God for the hope of tomorrow.
Ecclesiastes 9:11
