When you plant a coffee tree, it will take three years before it grows and bears fruits. Beginning from the seed, planting and taking care of a coffee tree is a serious task. A coffee farmer must wait for a few months before transplanting a coffee seedling into its permanent location. After the transplant, several processes are done to make sure that no insect (borer) will destroy the fruits. I must be describing it shortly here, but in real life, three years is a long wait.
If a farmer intends to plant coffee to make a living, he has to be sure that he also plants other short-term crops so that he will still have food on the table while waiting for his coffee to grow.
Waiting for a coffee tree to grow, while making all necessary (and not very easy) tasks to take care of a coffee tree, without the assurance that it will bear good fruits, requires a lot of PATIENCE.
In real life, patience, as they say it, is a virtue. It takes patience, as a child, to wait slowly as you grow and gain knowledge and experience. It takes patience to wait as you slowly work your way up to earning a college degree. It takes patience for one to wait for his/her dreams to come true. It takes patience in waiting for your prayers to be answered. It takes patience as God unfolds His will for you - day-to-day, and He only requires you to wait.
Patience.
Patience.
Patience.
See. Waiting is not easy. But the Prophet Isaiah clearly explains the essence of waiting in Isaiah 40:31:
"But those who wait on the LORD shall renew their strength; They shall mount up with wings like eagles, They shall run and not be weary, They shall walk and not faint."
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| These coffee trees are about one-year old. Two more years and a good harvest of coffee is much-awaited. If only the coffee farmers would wait patiently. |
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