Turning Lemons Into Lemonade - Part One

Imagine for a second that you have half a dozen lemons in a fruit bowl. The skin a brilliant yellow, waxy and slightly textured. The interior sharp and tangy, a sourness locked inside each beautifully shaped fruit.

You wouldn't pick up a lemon in your hand as if it were an apple and take a big bite. Neither would you peel the skin off like an orange, dividing the segments and munching on those. 

We are therefore aware that lemons aren't much by themselves, unless you want your taste buds to receive an unwelcome pounding by the waves of sourness that screw up our faces.

So what can we do with six lemons? Well we can squeeze lemon juice onto pancakes, or fish. We can use them as ingredients for a cake or other deserts of our choice. Better still we can make lemonade out of them. That is use the juice from all of our lemons and turn something that we find difficult to tackle as they are into something as sweet and as tasty as fresh lemonade.

The truth is we are that fruit bowl and each of us have lemons inside us. We sometimes refer to them in our daily lives to bring us success and prosperity. Symbolically the lemons are the talents we have inside of us. Everyone has an expertise, a passion or a gift we were born with. Something that stays inside of us until we die. A divine purpose that gets us inspired and motivated.

These lemons inside of us rarely leave our fruit bowl, but we all use them in moderation. Whether we bring our talents to an everyday problem, a job or a job interview. Like dormant forces they often stir inside of us and when we do apply them they can bring us unimaginable qualities of happiness and a profound sense of fulfillment in life.

So the question is rather than just squeezing a little of our lemon juice onto our lives once and a while. Isn't it about time we turned our lemons into lemonade and make something out of our talents, something fresh, something new, something that is going to make our lives change for the better?