Butterfly Bush

There is a beautiful butterfly bush outside my kitchen window.  Every time someone visits, they comment about the beauty of this bush, and they marvel at the number of butterflies that are always sipping nectar from the long purple blooms.

Do you know why that butterfly bush is so beautiful?  Every year in October, I take pruning shears and cut off every single chute, leaving just three barren, plain trunks that look like they are dead.  When spring comes the energy and inner growth, that has occurred in the winter months, springs forth and the bush grows many new branches, all loaded with beautiful, fragrant, purple flowers.


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I am the true vine, and my Father is the gardener.  He cuts off every branch in me that bears no fruit, while every branch that does bear fruit he prunes so that it will be even more fruitful. 
[John 15:1,2]