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The Orange

// January 11th, 2010 // My Thoughts

I tend to dislike oranges, they are a pain to peel… just by peeling it the juice gets all over your hands… not to mention the fruit itself… sure it tastes great… no argument there! but to get to it you have to chew on a tough almost woody membrane… there are seeds to contend with…

My wife sent an orange to work with me last week. I avoided eating it for a day, but for some reason I picked it up on Tuesday. I sat in my cubicle pondering whether to eat it or not. I held it for a minute looking at it almost in disdain… stupid orange… before I even dug into the peel I could imagine the little sting under my fingernail as I tried to break the first part of the peel away from the fruit. Finally I grabbed the trash can and drug it in front of my chair… leaned forward and dug my thumb into the orange… as I pulled away the first part of the peel a fine mist sprayed from it… immediately the smell of orange filled the air. Suddenly I felt like everything slowed down… I continued peeling the orange and broke it in half. Sure enough my hands were already sticky with juice… I pulled a section off of the orange and bit down on it… ahhh tasted great… except for the tough fiber surrounding it… I shook my head “this is why I hate oranges” I bit into a seed… “oh yea and this is why I hate oranges too!” I reminded myself… spitting out the seed. I ate another piece as I crushed the fruit in my mouth I started really thinking about the orange…

what a marvel of creation… the peel being so tough yet easy to peel away! and that fibery membrane… it balances out the sugars and keeps my digestive system healthy. And the seeds?… well the seeds are a pain… but I noticed.. that without much thinking I was easily able to chase the seeds out of the fruit with my tongue and spit them out…
The best part about the orange…

It made me slow down and peel it before I got to enjoy it…

we live in such an instant gratification, convenience obsessed society that we don’t even realize that we have all but eliminated the real meaning of life on this earth… this is Gods creation! we should be enjoying it! Unfortunately we often find it inconvenient to take the time to enjoy Gods creation…

My mind tends to wander on thoughts like these… I have to wonder how many of us go though our lives and are so obsessed in ridding ourselves of inconvenience that we never even realize that the inconveniences are what keeps us feeling alive… they are there to ground us… to teach us that anything worth having is worth working for.

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