“What is happening to me happens to all fruits that grow ripe.
It is the honey in my veins that makes my blood thicker, and my soul quieter.”
Friedrich Nietzsche
(ripening persimons on the tree / Julie Cook / 2017)
Ripe:fully grown and developed: mature ripe fruit
:having mature knowledge, understanding, or judgment
Unripe:not fully matured
2. not fully prepared or developed; not ready
How do we know when something is ripe?
Color?
Touch?
Taste?
All of the above?
Ripe equates with that which is good.
That which is pleasing.
That which is inviting.
Ripe is as good as it gets….
Unripe is bitter, hard, immature, not ready…
unripe is unproductive.
If you profess to being a Christian,
how does the anyone know whether or not you are ripe and ready?
One basket had very good figs, like those that ripen early; the other basket had very bad…
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