Do you complain to God during the times of hardship in your life, or cry out in anguish to Him in the times of pain and suffering as if they were meant to punish you? Perhaps we need to take a lesson from the unattended fruit bearing trees and vines that grow gangly without pruning, and don’t produce fruit in either quality or quantity. We are very similar to those trees… The times when God prunes us, and that we find the hardest, are those that benefit us the most.