Scanty?

Friday. John 15:1-8.

A spring storm broke a large limb of a cherry tree. It hung by a slender connection. But the blossoms came, and soon the fruit began to grow as on the other branches. By and by the fruit ripened on broken branch and on unbroken. I didn’t understand till one day Jesus’ word “much” made me notice that only those branches in full connection bore “much” fruit, the broken branch “scanty” fruit. How are your connections? The fruit tells, much or scanty.