Luke's Gospel today presents the parable of the fig tree that was barren, so much so that it's owner was about to cut it down. (Lk 13:1-9) The gardener,however, made a plea for another year so that he might tend it with loving care, cultivating and fertilizing the soil around it so that it might come to life and bear fruit again. If the fig tree were a human being, it would be grateful for the extension and most likely do all it could to respond.
How many times do we need that extension; where would be be without the many extensions God gives us, overlooking our failures and interested more in our striving?. Our spiritual growth is a process requiring time and "rebooting" as mistakes and failures plague us daily. We as persons and we as Church need to place our complete trust in Jesus, the One who tends our progress with tenderness and patience. St. Paul puts it this way.: Rather, living the truth in love, we should grow in every way into him who is the head, Christ, from whom the whole Body, joined and held together by every supporting ligament, with the proper functioning of each part, brings about the Body's growth and build itself up in love. (Eph4:16).
Bro. Rene
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