----Search the Scriptures / Witness of the Scripture ~~

--"You search the Scriptures because you think that in them you have eternal life; it is these that testify of Me."
--[John 5:39] --

----Sweat ran down my back in rivulets as the hot afternoon sun made yard work difficult. I was weaving a lattice of bendable decorative boards through a metal fence.

Finally, I arrived at a part of the project I'd been dreading--a grapevine I had planted several years ago. It had never borne fruit, and Margi and I talked about removing it, but I held out hope. Over the years, the vine had wrapped through through the fence I was working on. Now I had to remove some branches to finish my project.

I got out my pruners and reluctantly cut several branches. As I untangled the freshly pruned branches from the fence, I made a painful discovery. I found six clusters of tiny grapes clinging to the branches. The grapes were small, but the clusters were big. Yet, in one of the more questionable moves as an amateur gardener, I had just lopped them off. My heart sank. The goodness was there, but I just hadn't seen it.

So many times, there is beauty and goodness and abundance in my life, but I'm too focused on other things to see them. I let the negatives and the labor and the problems hide the gift of fruit.

Before snipping off another branch, I made careful inspection I found half a dozen more clusters on the vine. When I looked carefully for the good, I found it. That hot sun had given us homegrown grapes, and they were delicious. ~~

--"Thank You, Heavenly Father that you stay tuned to my heart to see Your goodness and grace every single day. Help me to keep my focus on You, in Jesus Name."

--Guideposts/BG~
--"Call On Your Name" // Elle Limebear / (lyric video) <https://youtu.be/CT5WPNV0ecU>
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