Wisdom’s Fruit:

Thinking this week about what or in whom Wisdom is…and how to be implanted with it’s ways. Looking at the hermeneutics of fruitfulness! Judging or interpreting the value of things by what types of fruit they have born. This is true in looking at people, government, politics, or personal decisions in the present. Or in reflecting on a person’s life.

Nice quote i came across today from some fruitful saint:

“Wisdom is known by her children, as Jesus told the people in Luke. The types of fruit we bear (creatively, in terms of projects and business, ministry, and in terms of our relationships with people and the earth) in and with our lives are obvious afterwards, once we have planted our spiritual seeds in the lives of others and those around us….the parts of ourselves we have moved in Wisdom bear good fruit. This is the law of fruitfulness.

 The parts or aspects of our lives which moved in Wisdom’s ways-indicated most overtly by love-bear good fruit in others, forever!

 This is why we cannot judge correctly in the moment, but have to look at the whole process leading towards the harvest of the fruits—then we can separate out the best pares and lemons, figs and apples, or grapes of righteousness….the choice fruit. A tree is known and interpreted by its fruit! Gentleness, kindness, patience, thinking the best of others (or recognizing what they potentially really are) etc…are the fruits we are looking for in order to interpret or evaluate the tree!

 We each are implanted with the fruits of the Spirit (listed in Galatians and elsewhere), and we each are called to plant them in the world around us. “

Or as one saint asked when making an important life decision:

“Does this bear the bad fruits of fear hatred and suspicion, separation, isolation, dis-integration, or does it bear the fruits which lead us to the wholeness of Love?”

 It’s a fruity calling to follow Christ’s way or path, and fruitful, hopefully, despite us. Let us be those who become and bear good fruit in this life! Let us be fruitful and multiply. Let us be fruity!

 What types of fruit are we bearing in our personal and collective lives, and what types of fruit are we becoming, as a person, as a family, a neighborhood, or as a nation, and as a global community? Anyway, I’m enjoying considering the metaphor of fruit this week, especially because it is very hot in Texas, and actual fruit is helping keep us going!