Apple Cores
So I've started eating the whole apple. Like the core and everything so that all I have left when I'm done is the stem.
I don't really know what got me started on that but it does make me feel like a hippy so that's always cool. :)
Anyways, today I was driving the rest of the way home with everything I thought would be my future fading in the rear view. And all the while I was sitting there eating my apply - core and all - and telling myself everything would be ok. And that sometimes you have to get through the bad to reach the better. And that somehow following God through the valley will eventually lead to a better view.
And I looked down at the half eaten apple - eaten from the bottom up - and I saw a flower. Right there in the middle of that half eaten core. A flower.
And I never would have seen it if I hadn't decided to eat the whole thing - core and all.
We both know I'm not talking about apple cores and hipsters.
This is life. Right here in this apple in my hands.
Because life somehow begins to look more beautiful when you finally decide to take all that is given and eat. Core and all.
This is what He is teaching me now. And life is becoming lovely to my eyes.
Even though sometimes you just don't want to eat the core. Because it's easier to just cut the whole thing apart and take out all the nasty parts. It's just easier on the teeth.
But all the while, without knowing or suspecting, we may be throwing out the most beautiful parts. The beauty in the ugly.
I don't really know when I began to understand all this, but it's been slowly coming and I'm finally knowing it. Really knowing it.
That even the ugly things are beautiful.
In fact sometimes they're they are the most beautiful of all.
But first you have to eat right through it all. And keep telling yourself it's good and that God made it all and why don't you just decide to love it all. And you'll hate it and love it and feel like you might just be coming whole in the eating of the whole.
And then suddenly you'll look down and see a flower.
A flower in the very center of the ugly, hard, nasty core.
So I will eat the whole of life for the chance to someday glimpse the beauty.
I don't really know what got me started on that but it does make me feel like a hippy so that's always cool. :)
Anyways, today I was driving the rest of the way home with everything I thought would be my future fading in the rear view. And all the while I was sitting there eating my apply - core and all - and telling myself everything would be ok. And that sometimes you have to get through the bad to reach the better. And that somehow following God through the valley will eventually lead to a better view.
And I looked down at the half eaten apple - eaten from the bottom up - and I saw a flower. Right there in the middle of that half eaten core. A flower.
And I never would have seen it if I hadn't decided to eat the whole thing - core and all.
We both know I'm not talking about apple cores and hipsters.
This is life. Right here in this apple in my hands.
Because life somehow begins to look more beautiful when you finally decide to take all that is given and eat. Core and all.
This is what He is teaching me now. And life is becoming lovely to my eyes.
Even though sometimes you just don't want to eat the core. Because it's easier to just cut the whole thing apart and take out all the nasty parts. It's just easier on the teeth.
But all the while, without knowing or suspecting, we may be throwing out the most beautiful parts. The beauty in the ugly.
I don't really know when I began to understand all this, but it's been slowly coming and I'm finally knowing it. Really knowing it.
That even the ugly things are beautiful.
In fact sometimes they're they are the most beautiful of all.
But first you have to eat right through it all. And keep telling yourself it's good and that God made it all and why don't you just decide to love it all. And you'll hate it and love it and feel like you might just be coming whole in the eating of the whole.
And then suddenly you'll look down and see a flower.
A flower in the very center of the ugly, hard, nasty core.
So I will eat the whole of life for the chance to someday glimpse the beauty.
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