Is putting you in position to reap the benefits of someone else’s hard work. Or, it might be setting someone else up to benefit from your labors.
None of our success is our own. There are others whose contributions made it all possible. Some of their names we know. Some of them will forever go unnoticed and unacknowledged. Every harvest that we reap is the fruit of seed that was sown by someone else, into soil tilled by someone else, and then watered and tended by someone else.
May this nurture in us humility and gratitude.
At the same time, none of our apparent failures are our own. Sometimes the unsuccessful seed we plant just needs more time. The hour of its fruitfulness and harvest is not going to arrive on our watch, under our care, or for our enjoyment and satisfaction. No work is ever wasted. Sometimes we will do the hard work of sowing so that someone else can have the joy of reaping.
May this nurture in us patience and generosity.
