Two weeks to Forever

My two week vacation on the farm had kicked off to a good start. Impressed with what I saw and naturally seeing Danie again was the absolute highlight. What was it about this man? I did not have those butterfly flutters I had experienced as a young girl - I had only really loved once before. No, this was something deeper, and it seemed to grow stronger each time we were together.

The farm was like an oasis in the desert, so different from the stress and strain of work in the city. Waking in the morning to fresh air, birds singing and blissful calm - now this I could get used to for sure.

Danie and I drove all over the farm on his quad bike. Down the long rows of peach trees laden with fruit tinged in pink and gold. Lush green foliage lined the rows in the ten thousand tree orchard. We picked and ate of the sweet fruit as the quad bike bumped past. In the distance lands, proudly sprawled with various crops - red, green and yellow peppers, hubbard squashes, pumpkins, butternuts, sweet potatoes, and hectares of tomato lands lay basking in rays of sunshine. What a sight! I realised, that beside the beauty of it all, lay many months of hard work and planning, planting, fertilising and watering in order to grow a crop worth harvesting.

I pondered as Danie drove me around, thinking how our relationships with God, so resembled the work on the farm. He plants us, nutures us, has plans for our lives, sees to it that we have the watering of His Word to help us grow - waiting to harvest us as His own. Looking at Danie, showing me all that he had done, proud of what he had accomplished thus far - I could almost hear the Master's voice saying to us, after He has accomplished all on the Cross ..."This is my Son (daughter) in whom I am well pleased."

The question is - Is He well pleased with our lives? Only we ourselves have the answer to this important question.