Oh, how I love fruit. I thank God for creating fruit. It is healthy, good and comforting. Did you realize that fruit was comforting? Well, it is! Especially apples.
Maybe apples are comforting to me because they make me think of Christmas time. When I was young (long time ago) we only had 2 fruits that we could afford at Christmas; apples and oranges.
Honestly, I can pick up a orange or apple, close my eyes and smell either of them and they take me back to the days of my childhood when my mother was still living. My mother died when I was very young, so I enjoy smells that take me back to the days of comfort when my mother was there to "mother" me. Our sense of smell is connected really well to our memory.
We made a trip to Ellijay, GA today. Ellijay is the Apple Capital of Georgia, or so they say. I LOVE going to the apple houses. I try to stop at everyone of them when we make the trip up to buy apples. Actually, we only buy apples from a couple of them but still, I enjoy stopping by each one and walking around and smelling the apples, apple pies and apple cakes. Of course, there is always apple cider to taste test. And no apple house is worth it's salt if it doesn't have apple butter and apple sauce to be tested as well.
We had a wonderful day. Enjoyed the beautiful sites of changing leaves that God had on display for us. The beauty that our eyes beheld only enhanced the trip.
My husband and I had a long conversation on the trip up about the many, many blessings that God heaps on us everyday. You might think, with the cancer diagnosis we are living with in our lives now that we would not find it easy to see so many blessings. However, we can even see the cancer as a blessing in a very unusual way. My husband faith in God has grown from a seed to a huge redwood tree. Praise God, that is a huge blessing. My faith has grown stronger.
Take whatever comes to you in life and turn it into a blessing. That can be done, we are living proof.
Be blessed and be a blessing to others.
