4327 days or 11 Years, 10 Months, 6 Days later

I asked a question and now have the answer. 

I am a branch planted in the Lord's vineyard, taking drink from the water of life, as clear as crystal, flowing from the throne of God and of the Lamb. 

1 Corinthians 3:7 

7 So neither he who plants nor he who waters is anything, but only God who gives the growth 

There is a saying 'Go to the gemba' - the real place, in Japanese. So I will go to Him for the best vine tender is the Lord God Almighty. He knows exactly where to snip, what to leave behind, no guessing from the great Gardener. His cuts are targeted, precise, with intention. 

Its messy - vines all around. Not a pretty look, but a heavy prune from the sweetest gardener will produce a fruit harvest like never before.  I thought the vineyard was the call. How could I prune (with any successs!) the vitus hybida without first experiencing a pruning of my own? 

So. Now is time for healing and then for growth so I may bear good fruit. Like a vineyard, in each season the good fruit is separated from the bad. There will be a day when the angels sickle sweeps for a wine press of this first earth perhaps when the seasons cease. For when is the last season? Behold He is coming! A last vintage of wine from the first earth will be made with withered fruit for the sweetest of ice wines.  

Who has the labor force and authority to pick the whole crop within a few hours, at a moment's notice, on the first morning that is cold enough? Only the Alpha and Omega - He who commands the celestial armies.

I Am the True Vine

15 “I am the true vine, and my Father is the vinedresser. 2 Every branch in me that does not bear fruit he takes away, and every branch that does bear fruit he prunes, that it may bear more fruit. 3 Already you are clean because of the word that I have spoken to you. 4 Abide in me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit by itself, unless it abides in the vine, neither can you, unless you abide in me. 5 I am the vine; you are the branches. Whoever abides in me and I in him, he it is that bears much fruit, for apart from me you can do nothing. 6 If anyone does not abide in me he is thrown away like a branch and withers; and the branches are gathered, thrown into the fire, and burned. 

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