The beginning of summer is just around the corner and I am ready for it! Are you?

This season brings warmth, flowers, butterflies, colors, rainbows, sorbets, vegetables, and frolicking at the beach, just to name a few things. It is a harvest of goodness and abundance all around, including fresh, ripe fruits from our trees. What would the fruit from your tree taste like? This question is asked with the recognition that we put out what is within us.

As humans, we can all agree that we have multiple personalities that are a direct result of our life experiences. We may have encountered people who make us question even whether God exists. Although we may not know how we got through some of it, the fact that we are alive today is proof that we experienced miracles by grace, which lifted us from these incomprehensible situations. Some of these miracles cannot be framed into a story, but they happened nevertheless.

Sometimes, we express our wounded-ness in relationship to others, behaving sadly, bitterly, aggressively, vengefully, cruelly, maliciously, sourly or spitefully. There are those who can never seem to let go of a past. There are others who never remember anything good someone has done for them. They begrudge everyone and everything. They seem to twirl in the dungeons of negativity almost all the time, and it is challenging to be around them. Sometimes, they expect others to put them on a pedestal undeservingly. Fruit from these trees would be sour, colorless, bitter to the bite, and it might even hurt your gums or teeth to eat.

But there are others who experience the same wounded-ness and yet they are able to turn these injuries into the most sunny, warm personalities. They are pleasant, hospitable, generous, inspiring, optimists, kind, gracious, and always loving. They twirl in the frequency of goodness and love. The fruit from these trees is just simply yummy. It feels like summer with every bite. It is filling, delicious, light and sweet.