May 22
My Son, Give Me Your Heart!
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by Kevin Swanson
Have you ever packed everything into the car for a vacation, pulled out of the driveway, accelerated up on to the freeway, and suddenly realized that you had remembered everything except for . . . one of the children? Have you ever bought a used car only to find out after signing the paperwork that the engine was missing? That is very much the way education has developed over the last century. It seems that we have remembered everything, except for what is vital.
There is something satisfying about fruit production. In late winter when the bare branches of the apple trees reveal their need for pruning, the gardener is faced with a decision. Which branches must be cut and removed in order to prepare the tree for maximum fruitfulness? The goal at that point is not to make the tree appear aesthetically attractive to the eye, but to enable the tree to develop its full potential within God’s design. The gardener does not ask the trees when pruning them, “How do you feel?” If they could speak, the answer would probably be something like, “Not very well, thanks. Every limb is suffering terrible pain and I see no sense in this at all.”
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