Angela Harmon planted thornless blackberry bushes that have grown into a magical, fruit-filled tunnel. The vines climb over an arbor so the large, juicy berries hang down, waiting to be picked and pied or cobblered, or gobbled on the spot. "They just found a place they thrived..." Angela comments.
We have friends who's daughter and her very-new husband are in Haiti, not just for a visit or short mission-trip, but for a year. There is no house for them to live in, simply a room in the hospital where they are working. That room is shared when a hurting need turns up, such as an AIDS baby, orphaned by the earthquake, who has no where to go. Fruit, nourishing and sustaining, produced by a vine planted where it thrives.
What makes a vine, a life, thrive? How do we "bloom where we're planted"? I love how Angela's berries illustrate Galatians 5:22... "But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control; against such things there is no law."
Eat it up, be filled to the brim and in turn, become a supply.
Visit Harmon Gardens at www.harmongardens.com or take the Main Street side road to Douglas Flat when you're heading up Highway 4 to Murphys.
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