the person...who looks for quick results in the seed planting
of well-doing will be disappointed. If i want potatoes for dinner
tomorrow, it will do me little good to go out and plant potatoes
in my garden tonight. There are long stretches of darkness and 
invisibility and silence that separate planting and reaping. 
During the stretches of waiting there is cultivating and weeding 
and nurturing and planting still other seeds. 

-Traveling Light, W. Berry