Fallow Field
If not because of discouragement due to comparison between harvests, it is hard to understand why someone would let a cultivated land lie fallow. Diligent farmland users will rather adopt good farming techniques, like crop rotation, in order to avoid severe effect of diminishing return. Continuous exercise of everyone's measure of gifting, investment of everyone's acquired wealth, and fellowship with everyone's acquaintances is bound to produce consistent satisfaction throughout all seasons. However, a discouraged heart would rather shift blames for all forms of dysfunctional characteristics. Life challenges are sources of great ideas and creativity. And many, who endure tough times, have always praise God for allowing them to experience the season of pain. Unfortunately, others have opted for divorce of their lovely partners, quit novel profession or good business idea, and sever godly relationship, etc, because of discouragement. When tough times hit hard, tough people ta...