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There's also a little parable in Luke about a fig tree. This fig tree hadn't produced any fruit for three years, and the owner of the fig tree wanted to cut it down. What a useless tree. I don't need it anymore. But the gardener asks for one more year. He says, I'll dig around it and I'll fertilize it, and, I imagine the gardener did so with great love and care. And he says, if that tree doesn't produce any fruit in one more year, then you can cut it down.