“They can be washed,” I thought to myself as I carefully rescued fallen blueberries from the kitchen floor. A few of the berries had been inadvertently stepped on and would not make it back into the nifty wash-and-drain-at-the-sink package in which they were purchased. I believe “Yuck!” is the operative expression. The awkward on-all-fours retrieval took only a minute or two, although lingering doubts persist about the possibility that a few of the berries may have found shelter beneath a couple of our major appliances.
Teamed up with gravity and the aforementioned spring-open-at-impact package, blueberries will surprise you with their speed and ingenuity in discovering every corner of the kitchen floor! Drop a banana. No big deal. Even strawberries don’t have far to go when they take a fall. But, blueberries will surprise you!
Two times in three days this happened. Hold your comments! Colleen did not bring home blueberries this week from the store. An oversight? Perhaps. But, I have not inquired. However, the problem is not the blueberries. The problem is the manner in which the blueberries got out of the refrigerator. In both incidents, the blueberries were knocked out as I was retrieving something behind them. Now is the time for someone to say, “Glen, you should have moved them out of the way before you reached for the margarine or the jelly!” Thank you for the advice and I hope I have learned my lesson.
May I now return the favor? As you reach for spiritual growth in the Lord, will you first move detrimental attitudes and habits out of the way? Peter said, Therefore, putting aside all malice and all deceit and hypocrisy and envy and all slander, like newborn babies, long for the pure milk of the word, so that by it you may grow in respect to salvation, if you have tasted the kindness of the Lord” (1 Pet. 2:1-3 cf. Jas. 1:21). Repentance is serious business, but spiritual growth is impossible without it.