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Health & Fitness

The Worthless Fruits

“Ahhh…. What a waste!” I told my husband  loudly as I kept on examining the unripe figs he just picked from the tree.

Trying to defeat the black ravens always perching on top and eagerly nipping at the budding fruits, its picked out skin laying on the bottom of the tree, he thought he could salvage some for me, knowing how much I loved eating them.

I stared at the purplish hued pear-shaped fruits. Though some were big, they were just too hard to be eaten, if not, some were already wilted from the heat of the summer sun.

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“Naaah….I don’t want to make any jam,” I protested, as he quickly suggested if we could try some recipes to save them from being thrown out.

I knew the laborious process of removing the sap and then, boiling with the sugar. But…eating them fresh wouldn’t be the same as the sweetened version.

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Into the kitchen trash bin they all got dumped…And our hearts were both broken to see them be thrown that way. Being mindful of not wasting any food especially in this economy.

Unfortunately, it couldn’t be prevented from happening. The worthless fruit did belong after all…

Into the trash bin…No place else…

As I kept on hearing the news…Most of them were depressing…

The massive influx of illegal aliens…

The war in Israel against Hamas…

The occupation of ISIS in Iraq…

The downing of flight MH17…and still no one was admitting who did it when the evidences pointed to Ukraine rebels backed by Putin’s Russia…

Those news….for some reason all had bitter tastes in my mouth…As I wondered… About this country’s president’s true stance in defending this nation. I just looked at his fruits…

No actions on the sudden influx of illegal aliens and instead kept on pushing for amnesty…

His silence when Hamas rockets kept on being fired toward Israel yet was quick to call for a truce when Israel had no choice but go to Gaza to defend its nation and its people…

The goal of bringing home the troops from the Middle East without securing what it had accomplished in its fight against terrorism… many Christians had perished and still being killed by these Islamic extremists…

The lack of condemnation toward Putin whose ambitions had always been to reclaim a Russian supremacy…

I didn’t need to hear those news…I could just take a look at all the fruits…Sadly…All those fruits left a bad taste to my mouth… Knowing they were all produced from evil desires and carnal minds…

I know…There will come a day…They will be deemed WORTHLESS!

By their fruit you will recognize them. Do people pick grapes from thornbushes, or figs from thistles? Likewise, every good tree bears good fruit, but a bad tree bears bad fruit. A good tree cannot bear bad fruit, and a bad tree cannot bear good fruit. Every tree that does not bear good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire. Thus, by their fruit you will recognize them. –Matthew 7:16-20 (NIV)




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