Pruning

The double multiplication strategy!

This season has cut us back to bare bark in many life areas, caused us to reevaluate and wonder the possible outcomes of so many extreme changes.

" He cuts off every branch in me that bears no fruit, while every branch that does bear fruit he prunes so that it will be even more fruitful."

John 15:2

The only comfort I have from this seemingly brutal hacking process is that the gardener prunes the branches that are bearing fruit; It is the fruitful that are sliced!

This means I am and have been fruitful!

So no failures here!

Yet HE sees there is a capacity for more.... but not in my current pot sitting state!

I have to be reshaped!

Our neighbour cut his trees right down to complete stumps. I actually thought he had killed them! They looked so ugly and dead for 2 months but now they are bushy and green!

I have since realised that branches removed can also be cuttings that develop roots and grow as new plants when carefully planted. Not everything that is removed is thrown away and destroyed!

My husband suggested I plant the small cuttings from our bonsai tree in soil and see if we could get them to grow. They looked droopy and fragile for a week or two but are now growing as new plants.

Our original bonsai tree is now flourishing like crazy so I need to keep cutting branches or it wont be a bonsai anymore!

The illustration is clear; not only does the bonsai bloom with the pruning, but I now have 6 other new plants growing from the branches that were chopped!

Right now we just feel the painful loss but some cuttings are for rooting elsewhere!

There is multiplication growth for the original tree (with potential more plants from each branch that I need to cut again) plus the multiplication of new growth from every branch newly rooting in a different pot.

The original bonsai looks alive and grows quicker than when left to its own comfort and timeline.

The strategy is actually tripled:

Growth is accelerated, multiplication is greater, and the harvest yield is increased in different locations faster....much quicker than growing from seed!

This insight completely changes my perspective of pruning from a lament to a hope filled anticipation!

Xxx