Love; the sweetness, the wholeness of all; see how it expands and fills up. This expansion and filling is Growth. Then comes the Bearing of Fruit, or the producing. This is how the Kingdom takes over the world, our minds, our thoughts, our emotions, our lives - everything. This "whole love" growing and filling and producing. See it as you see a vine, first growing roots and when they are established then the stems begin to grow and leaves grow until the vine fills the ground around it for a large area. Then it bears the fruit, veggies, flowers etc. This is what Love does to evil surrounding us in the world. It builds and grows the roots inside of us until it is firmly established and won't be moved. This action takes time and takes up a lot of area underground in our hearts and minds. Once it is established then the outward vine begins to grow, spreading out gradually all around us, creeping into every nook and cranny of every fixture and every object. It produces the leaves, sometimes big and shady which cover the objects and fixtures. These objects may be old and weathered and ugly. They may represent the ugliness around us in this life; sometimes they are things in our environment at work or at home. Whatever they are is "embraced" by the vine of Love and "enclosed" by it - "wrapped" in it and covered by the leaves until it is hard to find that object. It actually becomes concealed IN and UNDER the vine "Love". If this process is allowed to continue for a great period of time, that item will eventually break apart and begin to disintegrate with the slow, invading pressure of the vine. If we equate this as bad habits or bad environment we can see how those things of evil don't disappear with Love, but are "covered" by it and then "broken down" by it. Eventually the object turns into dust and becomes part of the soil.
In the growing and spreading out process, the fruit and flowers come. But they are on top. They are displayed on the "outside" rather than hidden under the leaves. When they arrive, they are "offered" to the passers-by freely for the picking and enjoyment of others. And the fruit carries the seed for reproduction. But the fruit is almost the "after-thought" and not the primary purpose. And yet it is essential for life. However the main intent of the vine seems to be the covering of the ground and expansion for as far as it is not constrained. It will spread and grow and expand as far as it is given the nutrients from the roots. This seems to be its primary goal - to spread and expand; covering over everything in it's path until all that is seen is the Love. Nothing else is visible. An ugly object may still exist beneath the leaves but only the Vine leaves are seen while that object is slowly dismantled and dissolved.
Let the Vine grow. Remove constraints and give it wide berth to cover and spread out everywhere in sight. The wider the area, the more plentiful the fruit.
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