Tuesday, April 28, 2015

The First Fruits of the Harvest

Yesterday I took the first fruits from my vegetable garden.  I really was on a mission to inspect it following the horrific hail storm on Monday that brought marble sized hail and a lot of damage to my plants.  I realized that I had a huge ripe onion ready to pull.  I promptly pulled the onion.  I cleaned it but haven't decided what to cook with it yet.

I could cook a hamburger and have fresh sliced onions on it.  I thought of shaving little rings and frying them as onion straws.  You can always saute them and top a good tenderloin fillet with them.  I suppose there are a million different things you can do with an onion.  

What to do with this "first fruit" of the vine?  It then hit me that the I should really just bow and give thanks for the bounty to which God has bestowed on us.  Our home, our family, our friends, our co-workers, our professions..............all of our many, many blessings.  That is really what the first fruit should represent.   We should stop and give thanks to God who gives us all things.

What do you think of when you think of "first fruits"?

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Having been raised with manners and class by a real Southern Belle (which by the way has nothing to do with money), I spend my time trying to make my company always feel welcome and comfortable in my home and at social gatherings I often attend!!!!!!!!