God's Pruning Hand

Pruning is surely a painful process for the vine, but a necessary one. Suffering is something painful. A realization that it is part of the pruning process to make our lives more fruitful will help us see suffering in a new light. Dominic Mathews in his booklet, God’s Pruning Hand, tries to make us understand better God’s pruning work in us. While explaining the pruning process, the author offers us a host of beautiful reflections on a variety of disparate topics: the significance of Baptism, what it means to be ‘pure in heart’, forgiveness, the relationship between love and fear etc. These reflections are meant to help us ‘abide in Jesus’.