Posts tagged Orchards

As I drove out into the Hills last week I noticed the fresh-looking clusters of pink blossoms on the fruit trees in the orchards. My heart jumped slightly as Spring is my favourite season – and what better indication than blossoms, that Spring is on its way? Spring, for me brings with it brightness, hope and growth.

The orchards had rows of trees covered in these little blooms; but then in stark contrast, in the very next section were bare trees. Very naked, by comparison.
Not everything may change at the same time or at the same speed. But, as Paul Young warns in his song, “Everything must change.” It’s pretty much a guarantee that both the environment and the people around you change.

A few of my close friends have had babies recently and this without a doubt is a huge change. Your life is turned upside down and inside out with things never being the same again.
I see the differences however in how the new parents deal with this monumental change – they themselves often change as people. Some characteristics that were previously buried start to emerge. Yet, I’ve also seen other new parents hang on tightly to their former selves and former lives but trying to integrate the new life as best they can.

To cope with any changing situation, there is no doubt that you need to adapt.
The role of any change is growth. New ideas come from change and new creations emerge from these new ideas.
But any adaptation usually starts with a change in your thinking. As is commonly known, your thoughts become your reality. Your thinking results in how you behave.
Limited thinking therefore becomes limited behaviour. With this kind of thinking, you hold yourself back or never discover what it is that you want – Let alone ever able to receive it!

So, the first step is always reflection. Take the time to find out what limits you. Let your limited thinking disappear and allow some new blossoms in your life to push through towards full fruition. In case you’re not sure what this is, you’ll recognise limited thinking through the following:
“I can’t”
“I shouldn’t; I have to or I must”
“What will people think?”
“I’ll wait for the right time”
“It won’t work – it’ll fail”
“There’s no point”… and many more

So if you change your thinking, (your fundamental thinking, that is) you may find the world around looks a little different. If you’re wishing something would change, here’s your chance to make it happen.

Soon, even the bare trees in the orchards I drove past will be covered in blossoms. Soon the current blooms will turn into apples. When the apples are mature, they’ll be harvested for distribution and sale before the cycle leads into winter again.

You’ve probably heard of the term fallow ground – This is land that could be productive, but for whatever reason has not been broken up, tilled, ploughed, and prepared for planting.
Are you like productive ground that hasn’t yet been ploughed? How long have you been doing the same thing, in the same way within your life?

What is currently frustrating you? What is making you unhappy?
What would you like to be different?

Find at least three words that you wish to be used to describe you one day. That’s the fruit you’d like your life to bear. How far away from that are you?

Is it possible that you can become a fuller expression of who you really are at the moment?
Remember that if the trees in the orchard don’t break out into blossoms, they’ll never bear the fruit they’re designed to bear.

“And like a dream, a life, a reason, everything must change.
And like a world, this earth and seasons, everything must change.”
(Ian Kewley & Paul Young)