Cultivate Virtue : Bearing Good Fruit
Obtain the habit of cultivating virtue, and fill your garden with plentiful fruit; so the Gardener of your heart, who is Christ may come into your garden and be pleased with your harvest.
Fortitude and servitude are virtues to acquire. The baseline is steady, the climb is steep. Without the virtues at the baseline, how can you climb and race, to the finish line? Adapt the habit of cultivating virtue. Pick a virtue each week to work on. Goodness, humility, self-control, tenacity, meekness. Virtueless people are already dead. In order to enter into The Kingdom, you have to obtain virtue. Virtue is obtained through grace.
A tree without grace cannot produce the fruit of virtue. Do not allow yourself to be distant from God, or you will miss out on the available grace and you shall become a fruitless tree. A fruitless tree does not acquire The Kingdom, as The Kingdom is full of good, abundant, sweet fruit. As there are many types of fruit, there are many different virtues. Some weeks you fixate on oranges, other weeks bananas, another week grapes. Focus one week on charity, another on patience, and another on faithfulness. Before you know it, you will be a tree that bears a variety of good fruit.
Examine the garden of your heart, and take a look at its harvest. How much fruit do you find? What fruit can be found in your garden in abundance? For the soul in love with God, it is always springtime. An abundantly rich and beautiful, bountiful harvest. The garden of your heart should be filled with a myriad of good fruit. Obtain the habit of cultivating virtue, and fill your garden with plentiful fruit; so the Gardener of your heart, who is Christ may come into your garden and be pleased with your harvest.
Serviam
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