Alistair shares from Luke 13:1-9 as part of KNEC Church Online

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*On my kitchen window

sits an orchid plant.

Its flowers have long dropped.

It is not the prettiest of things

without its magnificent yet delicate flowers.*

*What do I do with it now?

It looks like a twig in a pot

with a few leaves hinting at life.*

Ach, it really is an ugly thing.

Who wants to look at that?

*And yet with so little effort on my part, a little water now and again,

(and I mean now and again)

I start to see some buds appear.*

A bit more time then.

*And my is it worth the wait!

Those flowerheads are triumphant!

What if I had just given up?

What if that twig had landed in the compost bin?*

What if, at my lowest moment, people gave up on me?

(Spill the Beans, 42)