We have been observing that our neighbors, mostly retirees, spent a lot of time tending their 
garden with great diligence, faith and tender loving care. Yesterday, my wife and I invited ourselves into our neighbor's backyard to admire the fruits of their labor.
garden with great diligence, faith and tender loving care. Yesterday, my wife and I invited ourselves into our neighbor's backyard to admire the fruits of their labor.(1) Grapes (Concord variety) ripening on the vine. No insecticide used. Our neighbors kindly allowed us to try some of the grapes. Although the skin was a bit thick for my liking, the grapes were very sweet, and the oozing juice tasted like clear champagne.
(2) Raspberries - my wife's favorite berry! Incidentally, this is the only berry shrub which I can recognize in the wild. Nothing beats picking and eating the ripe berries fresh from the vine. (3) Tomatoes - very plum and juicy. The neighbors graciously allow us to pick some of the tomatoes which we used for our cooking.
Reflection: "Do not be deceived: God cannot be mocked. A man reap what he sows" - Galatians 6:7.
Imagine if a farmer planted grapes and tomatoes came instead. It's a natural law to reap what we sow. It's true in other areas too. Every action has results.
(1) What we are today, is due to what we did yesterday.
(2) What we are tomorrow, will be due to what we do today!
(3) Let us not become weary in doing good, for at the proper time we will reap a harvest if we do not give up - Galatians 6:9.
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Related to sowing and reaping, Madame Chiang Kai-shek once wrote:
"If the past has taught us anything it is that every cause brings its effect, every action has a consequence. We Chinese have a saying: "If a man plants melons he will reap melons; if he sows beans, he will reap beans." And this is true of everyone's life; good begets good, and evil leads to evil. True enough, the sun shines on the saint and the sinner alike, and too often it seems that the wicked prosper. But we can say with certainty that, with the individual as with the nation, the flourishing of the wicked is an illusion, for, unceasingly, life keeps books on us all. In the end, we are all the sum total of our actions. Character cannot be counterfeited, nor can it put on and cast off as if it were a garment to meet the whim of the moment. Like the markings on wood which are ingrained in the very heart of the tree, character requires time and nurturing for growth and development. Thus also, day by day, we write our own destiny; for inexorably...we become what we do."
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