Shake The Tree

I read this quote from a 19th Century preacher called Charles Spurgeon last week, which made me think...

"Get a promise everyday and take it wherever you go. Make it, learn it and inwardly digest it... I take a promise, I shake it to and fro and sometimes the mellow fruit falls into my hand. At other times the fruit is less ready to fall, but I never give up until I get it. I shake and shake all day long."

There's some things that have always been some of my 'one days'... Some trivial like 'one day I'll have a Ford Puma', some materialistic like 'one day I'll have a big house with a pool table, hot tub and golf course in the garden', then some a bit more heartfelt like 'one day I'll have a family'. What changes these from being 'one days' into 'to-days'? Tree shaking.

Sometime I go after something and I shake the tree and fruit drops right away, other times I have to shake and shake and shake because one day might be to-day.

[Bench update... I drove into the car park this week and saw a couple sitting on my bench! I would have said something but they had two big dogs. I'll have a quiet word next time.]