Good Tree, Good Fruit

Jesus said that a good tree can’t produce bad fruit and, conversely, a bad tree can’t produce good fruit.

What happens when we feel like bursting with a harvest of red ripe Fuji’s but we are still firmly rooted in a nasty patch of thistles just waiting to draw the blood of our neighbors?

At work I find that this duplicity haunts me almost daily. One moment I feel filled with the Holy Spirit as I stand ready to love and support my fellow co-workers and then later that same day I’m doing something to undermine the very faith I hold so dear and proclaim to the world.

How can we find that consistency to always be the good tree sharing the good fruit with the world around us?