About a week ago I saw a
large pink tomato at the bottom of one of our plants; its size was perfect for
BLTs, just perfect. Since it wasn’t red I was afraid to pick it – better to let
it fully ripen. A couple of days ago I asked Vickie to check it to see what she
thought. She looked at it, noticed it was beginning to rot on the bottom, and
went online to see what German Johnson tomatoes look like when they are ripe…they
look pink.
I harvested the tomato and
after cutting away the rotten part we had enough for two BLTs. Now we know to
look for pink and not red on our German Johnson tomato plants.
How often do we expect
people to look the same as they mature? How often do we fail to appreciate the
nuances and differences in people and thereby fail to appreciate the gifts and
graces and insights that others may bring to our congregations, communities,
and business organizations? Had Vickie not checked to see what German Johnson
tomatoes look like when ripe we would have allowed much fruit to rot on the
vine. How much fruit do we allow to rot in the lives of others because we
expect everyone to look the same, act the same, respond the same? How much
fruit does God produce in the lives of others that we disregard?
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