We don’t live near any of our family on either side. So getting together, even briefly, is a time of shared laughter and feeling loved. I know all families don’t work that way and I feel truly blessed that we like to see one another and enjoy each other’s company.
A family is the fruit born of the love of our parents and grandparents and beyond. On our recent trip to visit family I was reminded of Jesus saying “from their fruits you shall know them”. I could see my grandmother in one uncle’s face when he smiled and hear my grandfather in another uncle’s voice as he shared things about his life that I didn’t know. And at a dinner for thirty-four, all families born from my mother and father in law, I was overwhelmed with the fruits of their love amid lots of laughter and discussion.
A family is a fruit salad made up of a wonderful mixture of sweet melons, tart pineapple, juicy grapes, crisp apples and luscious peaches sprinkled with a few pecans and marinaded in generations of love and abiding affection. A good one is hard to resist and restores your soul. Enjoy yours whenever you can!
Oh I won’t ever look at fruit salad the same! My mother in law always has a large crystal bowl full of an assortment of fruit and nuts for the holidays. Wonderful memories!
Very true. You wrote it very well.