Mama teaches me a lesson...

Shortly after I posted my "God, I feel poor..." blogpost with my Pug mascot, my mother comes by to give me a little lesson in life. I had two very large fig trees in Boudreaux and Pierre's backyard. I had mostly ignored the fig trees. All they did was get in my way when I was mowing the backyard. I grumbled how huge they were, because I could hardly squeeze past them.

Well, Mama and I picked about 300 figs this afternoon. Mom tells me that she had picked the same amount yesterday, and the same amount the day before that. There must be thousands of figs left to be picked in the next two weeks! Suddenly, a moment of clarity came to me. There was plenty enough figs to feed my Mama, Grandma, and my whole family. Wow. Here are two fruit trees grown magnificiently by God's hands feeding the whole family, and I had all but ignored them. Funny how fig trees can help teach you a lesson.