The Bamboo Plantwith no fruits

First  of all i should clarify it to you that these trees dont actually bear fruits!!!however i thought il be a bit creative in using such a title to attract a reader! plus there is a hidden truth in the title which will be revealed to you in a moment.
This is a story about a bamboo tree. A special bamboo variety that grows in china or originated in china. this tree will not in no way show any apparant results of growth for its first four years. But of cource the people who know what these trees are also aware of the fact that they need to keep on providing TLC( tender loving care) for the first four years without ANY results!!
this would be frustrating isnt it?? so it goes....
that finally on the fifth year it will suddenly start "growing" ..some thing truly incredible occurs... Not only will that Bamboo plant grow, but it begin to  shoot up about 3 feet a day till it's about 90 feet tall! even after constant tender loving care brings no apparant results in the first four!
so what is the moral? what can we take home with this amaizing story?
When all seems signs of no sucess..the bamboo shoot was ready preparing a giant network of roots in the ground below it just so that once it starts shooting Upwards.. it will have a amaizingly strong network of roots to hold it steady and grounded. Indeed some efforts in our lives are similar.
we can work tirlessly to build character and wait patiently for that strong character to bring forth good fortune to our lives.
I personally have this belif.."nothing beautiful in life comes easy to you" and to add to it..its to say real and permanant beauty if you want in life..you need to work hard at it...
this concept we can use in many aspects of our lives...let it be a degree you are completing..let it be a relationship you are building up or let it be your sucess story interms of physical wealth!
that strong foundation you have been building will help you stand tall and flexible to all tough conditions of life just like to a bamboo tree...its super flexible and within that flexibilty there is incredible strength..i think an image of a bamboo tree can be a metaphor to discribe many things!
i pinched it from the blog that had a similar article of the bamboo tree and i wanted to use it here because i love the wording!
however the story of the bamboo tree surfaced up from my memory while i was engaged in conversation with my good mate tom! isnt it amaizing how things come in to awarness while on conversation,things you didnt expect to rememeber after so many years? our brsin is an amaizing tool indeed. i have so long given a hard time to my own memory by constantly saying ive got s bad memory But In reality i have a phenominal memory (may be its not..but why not call it that way:-)!!! its way better than reinforcing the negative belif that we have a bad memory!
so here is that bible quote at last!
this reinforces my belif of fath and hope having the bamboo tree in mind too ofcource ;-)!


"Let us not become weary in doing good, for at the proper time we will reap a harvest if we do not give up". ~ Gal 6:9 NIV