My wife is crazy about peaches. Seriously, while I was typing this sentence the Fed-Ex guy knocked on the door and left another box of peaches…fresh from Georgia. Diane likes peaches plain, in ice cream, in pie, in crumbly stuff…life is peachy-good in the summer time. Imagine the disappointment of my peachy wife if the trees in Georgia did not produce fruit. Imagine the disappointment of the grower! His livelihood depends on fruit production. If the tree was full of green leaves and blossoms there would be great hope but if there were no peaches; there would be sadness. Peach trees were designed to bear fruit—fruit in kind. In other words, it would be super-weird if the Peach trees in Georgia starting sprouting apples. We expect fruit in kind from the seeds we plant. All the people using the Community Garden at the Montcalm site are looking forward to beans from beans and tomatoes from tomatoes. It shouldn’t be a surprise to us then that Jesus expects fruit in kind. He expects that when we hear His words we will receive them like good soil and produce what has been planted. Since Jesus is good and His life is good, you’d think it would be easy to simply do what He said. But, sometimes we don’t hear very well. Sometimes we have good intentions but we don’t follow through. Sometimes we start well but allow other things in life to choke out the fruit. Jesus identified these different types of hearing problems in the Parable of the Sower. We’ll study His teaching this week by His grace. Thankfully, the seed of Jesus often lands in good soil and produces a bumper crop. I am privileged to see this quite often from my “seat.” I am amazed at the grace of God in the lives of Calvary people who have taken His Word to heart. Watching them reflect the life of Jesus in the midst of this crazy world is as refreshing as a Georgia Peach.