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EXECUTIVE

Pastor Mina Acraman
Executive Presbyter
Senior Pastor Miracle Centre.
Hastings, NZ

Growth
needs
Seasons
Our region (Hawkes Bay) is a fruit
growing region and many types of fruit
are grown here. One thing I have observed is that different fruits mature at
different times. Even within one season,
fruit will ripen at different times within that
season. So, at the beginning of summer
certain stone fruits, apricots, cherries, will
be abundant but later on in the summer
other fruits, plums and peaches will come
on line and in the early autumn we will
have apples and pears to choose from.
All in their time they ripen, according to
the plan God put into the variety of fruit.
What then are the seasons that are
required for growth? Well actually we
need them all. Growth comes as part of
a cycle. In spring, there is a surge of fresh
energy to prepare for the eventual harvest
that summer will bring. After harvest, there
is a cleaning up period and then there is
the deep rest of winter when only the roots
grow unnoticed under the ground.
It is easy for us to become disorientated, even disillusioned if we do not
understand the season we are cycling
through. If however we have a God given
sense of the directio