When cultivating a grape vineyard, many factors go into the fleeting moment of perfect harvest. It takes countless hours of cultivation and pruning coupled with a careful balance or combination (terroir) of soil, climate, topography and weather to produce quality grapes. If one element is out of sync with the others, the quality of the harvest suffers significantly. God is a master vintner, producing fruit on some very troublesome plants in some troublesome soils in very troublesome weather conditions. Those who submit to God's pruning and cultivating will yield abundant fruit even though the surface conditions may not look the best. If we stay connected to the vine, submitting to God's patient cultivating, we will bear abundant fruit.