LEMONS -- And The POWER Of The MIND

This bunch of kalamansi is good for making juice, but a lot of sugar is needed to counteract its tartness. If you bite into one, thinking it's a sweet orange in miniature, you'll be in for a surprise. It iS SOUR! For such a little fruit (usually one to two inches in diameter), it packs quite a punch on the sour meter!

As you were imagining its sourness, did you salivate?

These oranges are not quite ripe...and even when fully orange in color, they are still sour! After picking, we have to let them sit for a week to allow them to ripen into sweetness. But if you like sour flavors, you can slice these and sprinkle salt on them...that's how we eat green mangoes -- sliced, salted, or dipped in bagoong. (Are you now salivating as you read this?)

These lemons are from the neighbor's backyard, hanging over Mom's fence. And they are sour indeedy! Even now as i'm typing this, i'm swallowing my saliva. Is your mind as programmed as mine? As unruly...as conditioned to react with the subtlest suggestion?

The writer of the Book of Proverbs, King Solomon, knew the unruliness of man's monkey mind. He wrote in Proverbs 23:7, "For as a man thinks in his heart, so is he." How crucial it is to feed our minds with wholesomeness so that we may be able to counteract the unwholesome stuff that constantly splatter and bombard us from all sides!

Paul, the Apostle, advised in Philippians 4:8, "...whatever things are true, whatever things are noble, whatever things are just, whatever things are pure, whatever things are lovely, whatever things are of good report, if there is any virtue and if there is anything praiseworthy--meditate on these things."