It is interesting that fruit of joy just grows naturally when all the right elements are in place. When you plant a peach seed, you get years and years of fruit if you nurture the seed, coddle the seedling, prune the young tree, and provide water, good soil and sunshine. We should be fruitful not only through the years, but also day after day. To get a continual harvest, we have to be continually planting. We are farmers for LIFE! That means that our life is all about daily planting (through words, deeds, finances, etc.). What is so cool about daily planting is that you get to affect everyone who is around you. When the fruit of joy is growing, it naturally is shared with others. So your family gets to see your fruit at work. They get to see the most joy filled and best you, and hear your best words, and be recipients of your best behavior. Most the time we do it all backwards. We put our happy face on and give our best self away for strangers and let our family have our worst. Let’s be our best self always! Not because we’re trying to be joyful, but because we are letting the joy of the Lord flow through us. It is the goodness of God, not his harshness or anger that draws people to Christ. Our smile can be like that. A countenance of joy can make us magnets the lost! That is the best kind of fruit we could ever have!