Today, after 6 long years we ate the first Paw Paw fruit from our paw paw trees. Back then I ordered 3 each of two premium Paw Paw cultivars. They arrived on my front porch when my oldest was only 11. I carefully dug 6 holes and added compost and dirt... and guarded love. How would I be able to wait so many years before their tiny branches would offer up their yummy fruit?
Cutting into the soft flesh and scooping out the pulp was an awesome experience even before tasting it. In a culture that thinks a long-term plan covers 60 days, I had patiently pruned, fed, protected, and loved the little plants. Now I realize that we all need to plant a fruit tree, literally or metaphorically.
What are you doing that has a 5 year or more time horizon? What will require long-term faithfulness from you? We live here in a place with microwaved meals, phones that become obsolete in two years, and starter marriages.
It is not healthy for everything in our lives to have short time horizons.
So find something that will take you five years or more to do. (It’s actually not a very long time.) Invest your life and energy and hopes into it, and in five years you will be delighted that you did.
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