(*Botanically speaking a tomato is a fruit, the US Supreme Court can go sit on an egg.)
During my break I retrieve my branch of grapes and orange and begin consuming them. It's going really well until I realize they are seedless. Which normally would have made me very happy. But I suppose something is changing in my opinion on the matter.
At a house gathering in Harrisburg (PA) last night we read through the Creation account in Genesis. Then we watched Rob Bell's video Everything Is Spiritual. Couple that with recent readings of the Gospels and I came to a conclusion.
There is something wrong with seedless fruit.
Look at what Genesis says: (Chapter 1)
11Then God said, “Let the land produce vegetation: seed-bearing plants and trees on the land that bear fruit with seed in it, according to their various kinds.” And it was so. 12The land produced vegetation: plants bearing seed according to their kinds and trees bearing fruit with seed in it according to their kinds. And God saw that it was good. 13And there was evening, and there was morning—the third day.Yeah.
God made plants and trees with intent of bearing fruit with seed. Now, I'm no botanist, but if my memory serves correct, seeds are how plants reproduce. With out apple seeds folklore legend Johnny Appleseed wouldn't have a last name or story. I know there are ways to grow some plants by grafting and all that stuff. But that is essentially cloning (and I'm not jumping into that today.)
The fact is that plants are supposed to grow fruit that bear seed.
I've decided that I don't like seedless fruit. I won't be wasteful with what I already have. But I'm not going to intentionally purchase seedless fruit any more.
Some might say to me, "Dude, you're being way uptight about this." And maybe I am. But there is another side to this seedless thing that bothers me. Something that is at the heart of this revolution.
And that will have to wait for tomorrow.
grace, peace + hope
-Bear
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