Thursday, August 7, 2014

Apples Are To Trees as Diamonds Are To Coal

Shall fruit be blamed if it hang wearily
A day before it perfected drop plumb
To the sad earth from off its nursing tree?
Ripeness must always come with loss of might…

Born in the darkness, what fair-flashing gem
Would to the earth go back and nestle there?
         George MacDonald

Two great truths here;
1.     In the decaying of ripe fruit fallen from a tree, its seeds find nutrients in which to grow into trees producing their own fruit.  Ripe fruits greatest ripeness is its offspring.

2.     In a walk of faith it is often easier for the diamond to return to the darkness and be coal than for the coal to come forth from the darkness as a diamond.




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