patience is required: “And let us not be weary in well doing: for in due season we shall reap, if we faint not” (v. 9). Nobody who plants something in the garden expects to reap a harvest a week later. One of the fundamental laws of sowing and reaping is patience. It takes time for the seed to germinate, to put out its first little roots and its first green shoot. Then it takes more time for the plant to develop and grow. Then it has to flower, and the fruit has to form. It takes a whole growing