Shriveled Shrub
SPECIALIZED
WRITING
It
was a sunny spring season and the farmers were all out to plow lands and sow
seeds. It’s a good weather for out growing plants and harvesting ripped fruits. In
the middle of the farm land, you’ll found a baby plant needing to be cared and
nurtured in order to grow fast and fruitful. Unfortunately, the farmer was too
way busy monitoring the tall trees for it to bear lots of fruits next season.
He has no time to check him out, either give him a bit of his attention. The poor
baby plant was left out and seemed to be an outcast because he was the only non-bearing plant in the farm land while all of the trees surrounding him
produces fruits. They give benefits and happiness to their farmer. The baby
plants also wanted to bear fruits, however he doesn’t have the capacity to do
so which made him feel useless.
One
night, he asked God, “Why did you put me
in a place I don’t belong? You should have placed me somewhere who doesn’t bear
fruits. At least I feel like I’m with my family. Is this your way of making me
feel worthless? Letting me be surrounded by fruit-bearers? You shouldn’t have
let me exist. I’m useless, Lord. I can’t even make my master happy. I’m just a
shrub.” God said, “Wait for it my
child.” The baby plant exclaimed, “Wait?
Wait for what?” God didn’t answered him and there’s a long moment of silence till
he barge in and said, “Yes Lord, I trust
you and I will patiently wait.”
Several years had passed and after their last conversation, nothing
followed. The baby plant grew into a tree and still he’s not bearing any
fruits. Again he asked God, “Father Almighty,
I’ve waited long enough. Am I about to bear fruits? When will be my time to
have them?” As what God always say, “Wait
for it. Soon, it will come.” And so the plant waited – patiently waited for
God’s promise to happen. Years and years had passed, however, all things has
its finish line, has its dead end. And the plant reached the peak of his
patience that lead to asked God bluntly, “Lord,
I’ve been trusting you and been waiting so long for you to fulfill you promise but
you left me. You told me to wait, and I did, but nothing happened.” The sky
started to get angry and poured down a heavy rain. That moment made him felt
forsaken, he felt that, all this time, he wasn’t with anyone, he was really all
alone.
The
next morning, the sun has shined so bright and it was definitely a wonderful
day, the plant thought its another worthless day for a worthless creature like
him. He felt a bit uneasy as if he is carrying lots of load. He thought it was
the raindrops stocked in his leaves so he shrugged himself and wagged his
branches to take it off. Surprisingly, a lot of fruits fell on the ground – and
it was from him. He can’t believe it. He bears a lot of fruits unlike the trees
that surrounds him. And because he waited for God’s promise to happen, God gave
him more of what he had actually prayed for.
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This would probably my first composed story for this semester. It's kind of a high school work! hahahahaha. :)
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