Cherry harvest is coming to an end. Not because the trees
have been picked clean. I can’t get up high enough, nor do I have the energy to
keep going much longer!! Friends came last night and picked a couple of boxes,
and the red ones are beginning to spoil, though the black remain firm.
So what happens now? I imagine the ground will be carpeted
by rotting fruit, which might call rodents and other undesirables. I may still
have work to do out there, sweeping and putting into the compost heap, or we
may find our cherry trees have the pulling power of the Pied Piper of Hamlin.
What is a blessing and sweet to the taste can go bad. What
nourishes and delights can turn sour and sickly. God pours out his blessings
and gifts on us, which he wants us to use for the good of the Kingdom. The
important thing in life is that old saying, carpe diem, because what is
wonderful today may be horrible tomorrow.
It’s not always easy to choose how to spend time, which
gifts to use when. I had planned to do some writing today, but the forecast is
that this good weather is drawing to a close, so I better take my own advice,
and get out there and carpe diem. I can write in the rain, but I don’t want to
deal with rotting cherries in it.
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