Monday, July 04, 2005

Patience in a bamboo

In China there is a bamboo tree which is planted, watered and fertilized for the first four years and nothing happens. There is no visible sign ofgrowth. But sometime during the fifth year, the bamboo tree grows about 90 feet in 6 weeks.

The question is: Did the bamboo tree grow in six weeks or did it take five years to grow even though there was no visible sign it was taking root inthe ground?

When there was no visible sign, if someone had stopped watering and fertilizing it, would this have happened? Certainly not. The bamboo tree would have died.

Have patience and faith and keep doing the right thing. Even though the results may not be visible, something is happening!

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