It Takes Time

Four or five years ago,  I bought this eight foot trellis and had a particular vision of vines climbing up it and all around it, all the way to the top.

Every year, I tried.   I know one year,  I tried with morning glories,  but the heat and other elements stunted the flowers and they never really made it up the trellis.  So that was one failed attempt.

I know for at least two other years,  I bought and desperately wanted climatis plants to climb up my trellis.  I have in my mind's eye a beautiful deep purple prolific climatis that completely enveloped a post in our front yard in a previous parsonage house.    I've never been able to replicate that.   Now that I think about it, that particular location was very shady, and I have no such shady spot in our current home.   So that was several more years of failed attempts.

This year,  I decided on the garden as a possible location, and thought I might try pole beans.  From previous years experiences,  I know that pole beans are very hard to find.  Mostly the garden places carry bush bean seeds,  so there was a challenge there,  but I figured if anyone had pole bean seeds, it would be Agway, and indeed they did.

So this year,  the particular vision I had with I bought this tall trellis has been fulfilled.  I see several life lessons here.   First, sometimes it takes time for a vision to reach fruition.  Second,  you can expect failure on the way to realizing the fulfillment of the dream.

The trellis is just a metaphor here for life.  It applies to all things, really.  If at first you don't succeed,  try, try again.  


All of this reminds me of a favorite saying of mine:  


Success is never final;  failure is never fatal.  It is courage that counts.