Harvest High
June is always the time when I begin to harvest blackberries by the bushel. Their dark purple color and juicy tartness are just the right combination for making blackberry jam, topping a bowl of cereal or simply mixing together with other summertime fruits for a light dessert. But while I am in the patch lifting leaves and peering under branches for that certain shade ripeness, I have realized this is not a once a week job, but rather, I smile when I find myself out there plucking everyday. Today, those back there may not be quite ripe enough but the very next day, I find that they have aged just fine. And so it seems to be with issues in our life. What we find today to be difficult and unbearable, tomorrow we may find to be quite acceptable or even agreeable. Perhaps all we need to do to bring a "harmonious harvest" to our lives is to simply grin and bear the bitter, let things calm and settle, even ripen a bit longer and hope for a fruitful harvest in days to come!
Today's Quote:
I say to you: Make perfect your will. I say: take no thought of the harvest, But only of proper sowing.-T.S. Eliot
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