Low Hanging Fruit

At my work "low hanging fruit" is a common phrase used by management to encourage staff to take care of issues that are easy to resolve in order to tackle what can seem to be overwhelming hurdles. Take care of what you can, making progress, and then continue to whittle away at the more complicated issues. 

At a retreat in the piney woods of East Texas I was struck by the fact that sometimes there is no low lying fruit. 

How to get to the fruit? Climb something equally as high?

or cut it down?

but then the tree is damaged

and put into disarray

sometimes the tree can be re-purposed

sometimes the fruit lands and plants by itself

sometimes there is no low hanging fruit.

No easy solutions to problems

And we can destroy the very spirit by trying to take control.

We can all be made new and re-purposed....

in many more forms than we could have imagined.

sometimes the fruit springs forward from a seed of hope.

Let us know how to trust and wait

when the fruit seems beyond our reach.

show us the way.