SPRING Not Yet Sprung

Backyard neighbor's lemons...ours for the picking. Was it Charlie Brown who was always given lemons in his cartoon life? Yet somehow, he made lemonade from the many lemons that feisty Lucy always threw at him.

Uncle Ric's sayote...also called sechium edule (its scientific name), merliton, tayota, choko, chocho, chow-chow, christophene, alligator pear, chayote, vegetable pear. This two-month old plant has yet to mature, but it will begin to bear fruit around April-May, and continue to bear much fruit in the summer months ahead. This is a typical Filipino vegetable, usually cooked in a soup with meat; but i've also grown it in Lagiloa, our bush farm in Taveuni, Fiji.

Mom and Uncle's vegetable patch in hiatus, already cultivated with manure. Today, the stormy weather is bringing much rain which will mix the dirt and manure, readying the soil for the seeds to be sown soon.

Do not be deceived, GOD is not mocked; for whatever a man sows, that he will also reap. For he who sows to his flesh will of the flesh reap corruption, but he who sows to the SPIRIT will of the SPIRIT reap everlasting life. (Galatians 6:7-8)

i see GOD's Word illustrated in His creation. When Mom sows the ampalaya (momordica charantia linn or bitter melon) seeds, she will harvest the fruit of the ampalaya...for whatever she sows, that she will also reap.