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Friday March 8^th, Luke 13:  6 Then he told this parable: “A man had a fig tree, planted in his vineyard, and he went to look for fruit on it, but did not find any. 7 So he said to the man who took care of the vineyard, ‘For three years now I’ve been coming to look for fruit on this fig tree and haven’t found any. Cut it down! Why should it use up the soil?’  What are the good fruits we should be busy producing?  Is it swords into plowshares or binding up the broken hearted?  Is it release for the captives or proclaiming the year of the Lord’s jubilee?  Or perhaps is it showing kindness, mercy and forgiveness for all, is it practicing forgiveness?  When we want to judge others, remember that our own fruit bearing deserves the ax most the time, and those difficulties, the compost in our lives may be God’s way of letting our own antics fertilize our life so it can grow.  Perhaps learning justice and mercy is a better way to go.