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www.majorinthegraceofgod.blogspot.com
socked away and out of sight for a rainy day."A day’s harvestA season’s harvestThe harvest of your lifeHarvest is a state of mind as much as it is a literal field that you planted two seasons prior and must gather in.Harvest is being conscious of where you are making purchase. Purchase of seeds, purchase of resources like sun, nutrients, and then collecting water. Harvest is making purchase of a field one yard at a time. Slowly and deliberately.Harvest is stopping in the whirlwind of growth and asking:Is this the crop I intended?Is this the yield I expected?Is this bringing the joy of hearing Jesus say, “Well done, good and faithful servant”?Harvest is taking stock of the larder for the winter.Harvest is naming your surplus and sharing it with the needy.Harvest is leaving the corners of your acre untouched so the needy can nobly and anonymously be fed.Harvest isa mindset.Therefore, Harvest can happen at 10 pm for ten minutes (the conscious examen of your day)on Sunday during the Prayers of the Peopleat midnight on New Year’s Eveon April 15th as you hit send on your tax return.Harvest is every graduation.Harvest is every new birth and baby shower.Harvest is a first cousin to regret and gritty trust. Harvest is being out of control regarding weathers.Harvest is rejoicing and bringing in the sheaves.Harvest is Jesus weeping over Jerusalem as he stood on the Mt. of Olives— because the harvest was in ruins.(an event known as Flevit super illam in Latin).Harvest is Jesus saying, “Today you will be with me in paradise” to a thief.Harvest is John being commissioned to care for Mary at the foot of the cross.Harvest is the big catch of fish after zero on your own.Harvest is your tears kept in a bottle and your songs being recorded.Harvest is standing in a field of stunted and dried out corn stalks as far as the eye can see.Harvest is stopping with a plan to see the field. To see what's there.Harvest is seeing pew after pew full of worshipping families.Harvest is seeing pew after pew of empty seats. Harvest is stopping with a plan to see the pews. To see what's there.Harvest is the day the papers are served.Harvest is the day you celebrate the 40 years of being married.A harvester is not made by John Deere, It is a man or woman made in God’s image that is willing to ask a question.A question that requires courage.What am I making with the raw materials I have been given?Harvest is about something much bigger than numbers.It is stories told around campfires of what life became because you were here and naming the ways life would havebeen impoverished if you hadn’t been here.Harvest is giving alms in secret and knowing a private harvest of hope that erupted from your heart.Harvest is an exhausted parent reading to a child at nine o'clock at night.Harvest is writing till your vision blurs--Planting and plucking words until the lines singwith the beauty of language.Harvest is putting your thoughts in an envelope with a stamp to say you remember gifts given.Harvest is having an abundance for October and canning a portion of it for February.Harvest is when you pop the waxed seal open in February and say “thank you”Harvest is building relational capital and keeping it secure before you leave your day job.Harvest is bringing all of your friends up on stage with you.Harvest is weeping over the fullness of ice wine.Harvest is saying, “next year” when the birds ate every grape in your vineyard.Harvest is saying. We will rebuild." after a floodHarvest is a photo album of 12 years of school pictures.Harvest is complex management of faith, fear, risk and generosity.Wealth management can be harvest —but most of the time, it is a fear-based clutching of bottom line number
Harvest stands in the rain and laughs."