An OFW named Simper Fidelis came for a short vacation. One time he went to his piece of land to think of what he can do with it before he would go back abroad for work. “What can I do to make this piece of lot useful? Aha! I know what I am going to do to it, I will plant some grafted seedlings of different fruit-bearing trees! I will plant one seedling of lansones, rambotan, pomelo, santol and mango.” Before he went back abroad, he executed his plan. After twenty years of working he was advised to resign and therefore he went back to the Philippines. One time he remembered that he planted something on a piece of land that he acquired twenty years ago. After arrival, he immediately went to where he had planted those seedlings. In trying to locate each of those seedlings, he only found a big mango tree with fruits. He embraced it and thus continued searching for the other seedlings which were supposed to be trees by then. But he found nothing except the mango tree. One time the mango tree was able to speak, “Master, don’t search for them anymore, you could not find them for they were all gone because of the so-called Law of Mortality: some died because of lack of water and nutrients. Others died because of stem-borers, weeds and El Niño. I am the only one left here, still alive despite those trials. Here I am proud to show you my fruits. I promise I will stay longer in this place and continue to bear fruits for the coming years. And if ever you wish to build a house make my hardened stem as your materials but before you have that plan, please take the last fruits that I will be bearing and plant the seeds in this place and I assure you they will be faithful as I am.”
Moral Lessons:
Faithfulness is proven by years of trials, by the fruits despite the trials and even offering oneself as a sacrifice out of one’s great/ deep faith.
Buddha says “Health is the greatest gift, contentment the greatest wealth, faithfulness the best relationship.”
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