In addition to digging around it, the gardener said he would fertilize it. Back then, there was one main kind of fertilizer, which we still use today. The best fertilizer was animal manure. It stinks, and it ain’t pretty, but it works to prompt the trees and vines to produce fruit. May I suggest that sometimes the stuff that stinks in our lives is God prompting us to produce fruit?
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