Christmas Nuts

One of the children brought two bags of nuts 

to the house for Christmas.

It was quite fun for me since it brought back 

to my memory my childhood Christmas Stockings.

We always had unshelled nuts in the sock along

with a small thought book and then other various items.

So while I was shelling some of these nut on Jan. 7, 2018

I was brought to think about the process 

and how it relates to life.

These were also the types of nuts we generally received.

Pecans, walnuts, almonds, brazil nuts and filberts.

I took a keen interest in the filberts since mom had

planted a couple of bushes while I was young

and they grew so slowly that I thought they 

were actually a bush all the time.

Then I returned after being gone a few years

 and was surprised to see they were rather large trees.

In order to shell the nuts we had to have a 

nutcracker and a pick

.

and a pick.

SO when I started shelling the nuts

I realized that life is a lot like these nuts. 

Some come out whole and safe when 

the shells they have built around themselves 

get shattered.

Others crumble and break apart.

However when all said and done

they are still very important and have 

the same worth as before. 

We often even crush nuts when we add

 them to cookie dough so they blend more evenly

into the dough. People are often tested 

or crushed so it would seem so that 

they blend into the family more evenly.

Either way they are still a part of the 

make-up of the whole and things just

aren't right without them.