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.
