Freshly squeezed

January 8, 2009

I'm double posting this entry from my blog, www.jenjotsthoughtsat.blogspot.com, as I thought it might encourage you today to join one of our studies coming up, or maybe just prompt you to dust off your bible :)

I didn't realize as a kid that not everyone in the world can walk outside their back door in the bright warm morning January sunshine, pick oranges, and juice them to have with breakfast. I thought that was completely normal and insignificant. I know much better now! Trying to teach my kids about California life here this week, I took Keelin and a couple brown Trader Joe's grocery bags out to the yard in search of a great glass of juice. There's absolutely nothing better than real freshly squeezed juice.

We filled our bags with about twenty some-odd oranges and took them inside to juice. We halved them and pressed them onto the citrus juicer. Keelin stuck her finger at one point into the stream of juice from the machine, and said the juice was a bit "sourish."

We poured our glasses of juice. Keelin's first taste prompted her to ask if we could put sugar in it. WHAT?!!??! To suggest such a thing!! Broke my heart! I think it's my fault in a way. At home we buy less expensive Minute Maid from frozen concentrate. Making juice at home in Canada involves opening the can and adding three cans of water. That's even if we buy real juice. Often we have orange punch, which has very little if any orange juice in it, along with other juices mixed in, or completely artificially flavored.

How often do we settle for cheaper artificial or watered down versions of the real thing? Does it happen so often the fake starts to taste more real than the true?

The truth, the real stuff, is sometimes hard to come by, and costs more, but seek it out.... it's amazing!

O taste and see that the LORD is good; how blessed is the man who takes refuge in Him. Psalm 34:8