ATTITUDE
Olive Tree
7.14.02
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Transcript:
The Mediterranean diet is a popular, healthy eating plan. Olive oil is central to this diet. Now olive trees most often grow in marginal areas, like rocky hillsides, unsuited to other crops. While olive trees may prefer good soil, they are quite hardy and do well under stressful conditions.
In fact, a Greek friend of mine believes that the more distressed the earth, the better the olive oil.
How about you? Are you producing your best where you find yourself or too busy complaining about the conditions to bear good fruit?
This is Howard Butt, Jr., of Laity Lodge. Out of our trials comes new life. Use whatever situation you’re in to help you grow stronger. Take a lesson from the olive tree and flourish where you’re planted—in the high calling of our daily work.
For this reason, since the day we heard about you, we have not stopped praying for you and asking God to fill you with the knowledge of his will through all spiritual wisdom and understanding. And we pray this in order that you may live a life worthy of the Lord and may please him in every way: bearing fruit in every good work, growing in the knowledge of God, being strengthened with all power according to his glorious might so that you may have great endurance and patience, and joyfully giving thanks to the Father, who has qualified you to share in the inheritance of the saints in the kingdom of light.
READER'S COMMENTS
Question: What is the rate of attrition/mortality on olive seeds? 1:1,000,000? One lives but 1 million die? How many survive but never produce fruit? As long as we are among the survivors and the fruit bearers, this message is perhaps easy. It's perhaps right and biblical to preach the benefits of suffering. I think it's also biblical to preach the benefits of resolution to problems. Thank.
John 7/15/2002 10:29:39 AM
VERY VERY GOOD---THANK YOU FBW
FLOYD WARD 7/15/2002 11:48:16 AM
I must disagree with John about survival rate of olive seeds. See following website for info. Nevertheless, weathering storms may make us more apt to prepare for the next stormy weather, thus more adept at finding resolutions. see http://aggie-horticulture.tamu.edu/extension/fruit/olive/olive.html
Chaplain Dennis 7/15/2002 11:52:15 AM