Happy reading to everyone
The fir tree and the apple tree!
One autumn day, an apple tree, discontent with its fate, confided its disappointment to the “orchardist.”
Nature had been unfair to him, giving him a completely misshapen appearance, while the magnificent spruce that rose beside him was the envy of all men, who, year after year, never ceased to adorn it with beautiful illuminated stars.
The “pomologist” then resumed: “You are deformed, that’s true.”
But remember that you are a grafted tree from a young age, and that you remind man that he too is a people deformed by his faults and weaknesses, yet also capable of bearing good fruit.
You are pruned, that is true, but it is so that your fruits may be all the more magnificent.
And, speaking of its fruits, the old “apple grower” pulled a fine apple from the tree, took out his knife, and with a single horizontal cut, sliced it into two equal halves.
He showed the two halves to the apple tree and, pointing with his knife to the star formed in the middle by the seeds, he said to it: “You see, the fir tree has the stars that are added to it, but you have your stars in the middle of you.”
It is in your very heart that your beauty lies!
Unknown author
You are all beautiful on the inside!
Kisses
Marylena