Self portrait Tuesday: Be fruitful

When Life gives you lemons make lemonade. How many times have you heard this one? Today a little birdie made me think of LIFE LESSONS, so I got one for you, The land my parents house is on was given to them by my grandfather and on this land there was a Huge lemon tree that was grafted with orange, it made the best lemonade ever. The thing about this lemon tree is that it was always fruitful, the lemons were always huge and juicy. During the Coupe in 1990, when the government was overthrown for those couple of days by a terrorist attack, my grandmother gave everyone food from her garden so that they could eat, there was a nationwide curfew so we couldn't go anywhere for most of the day and all the markets and groceries where closed down. My grandmother also gave everyone lemons off the tree to make juice to drink. The lemon tree become a symbol for the community, a sign of God's promise that he will provide for his people and everyone in our village reaped from it. In a time of stress and uncertainty of the future, we all knew one thing was sure, we will always have food and family to depend on. After that year, we noticed that the tree started to die slowly and my father decided to cut it down, it had served it's purpose and it is on that very stump my parents built their house, which stands today. Therefore I say when life give your lemons, take those seeds and return it back to the earth so that generations after you can have something to sustain them, plant those seeds to give them certainty in this uncertain world, we live in. Being Fruitful is more than providing for yourself but for everyone that touch your life in one way or another.