What Do You Do With Your Lemon?
Meet Sam, a five-year-old boy who has a brain tumor and after so many treatments the doctor has finally said to his parents to just take him home to be with his family..
Sam is one unique child. Although he knows he is sick, he doesn't know how grave it is and with his young mind, he is unaware that anytime his life here on earth is about to finish.
His family showers him with total care and full attention and he gets a lot of visitors every day from other members of the family, relatives, his playmates from the neighborhood, and his parents' friends and co-workers.
In a way, he is loving all the attention and all the visits from them. They encourage him, tell him stories to make him laugh and he is very much receptive to all those gestures.
They are all complimenting on how he looks so well and saying to him that pretty soon he will be able to go out and play with his playmates and go to school as well.
He likes all of that and that is why he is so joyful and always has a good spirit when they are around and even so proud of himself for being so well and not sick anymore.
They told him that he was so well and he could be a Superman and just go from place to place and play with his friends in the neighborhood again. And he was so delighted to hear that and he actually said, "Yes, I am Sam, the Superman. I am not sick anymore and I can play again and go to school.
Meet Ashley, a seven-year-old girl who cares more than anything else about her little brother, Sam. She stays with her brother as much as she can and plays games with him, reads books to him, and sometimes even feeds him.
She is very much protective of him and when someone would come to visit her little brother she would be there to continue watching him.
One day, all of a sudden, she told her little brother to wait for her and she just had an idea and she would be back. And so she left him.
She went into their backyard and pick some lemons from their tree. She went into the kitchen, washed those lemons, and made a pitcher of lemonade.
When her mother saw her and asked her what she was doing, she replied, "I am making lemonade and I am selling this lemonade to anybody who comes here to visit Sam."
And so she did. Amazingly enough, everyone who came to visit Sam would buy a cup or two of the lemonade and Ashley was so excited as she was earning money selling the lemonade. She was now making a profit.
When she had the money, she would ask her Mom to let her come to the store with her so she could buy something for her brother Sam.
Sometimes it would be a little toy or a book or a little snack that he would like to eat. She made sure that she would sell more lemonade to have more money so she could buy something for her little brother.
What about you? What are you doing with your lemon?
Do you step on it and kicked it out? Do you pick it and cut it up and squeezed it and when it is too sour you just throw it out? Or do you stumped on it and left it there wherever you found it?
What do you do with your lemon?
In life, it is not always roses. Even the rose has thorns but if you will focus on the thorns you will never smell the roses.
When you are climbing up the mountain and you have a long way to go and it is too steep and slippery, do you just stop and go back where you came from or you just prod along until you reached the top?
When everything around you is not going your way and you have only had yourself to depend on, do you just go to your room and moan and groan and complain about everything that is not going right with your life?
Why don't you go left then?
When you think you are left alone and nobody cares about what you are going through, do you throw the towel and just say, "This is it. I cannot continue anymore."
Remember Ashley? She made lemonade out of the lemon. She did it for her love for her brother, Sam.
My friend, you are created here for a purpose and not just to exist. It is up to you to create your own life to not just survive. You are not even here to just live but to thrive and it is up to you to make it a reality.
You are the best creation ever existed on this earth and your life is such a miracle that you are still here reading this post. This is not a coincidence as there is no such thing as coincidence.
What do you do with your lemon is up to you. Make your life counts not only for you but for the whole community, the whole nation where you are, and for the whole world.
You must decide to be creative, not wait to be. You must challenge yourself. You must be the inspiration, propose the solution and become the answer.
This planet needs more people like you, purpose-driven, goal-oriented, and someone who really cares otherwise you would not be here with us and even reading this blog.
Your only obstacle now is your own mind.
So, what do you do with your lemon?
Please do share your comments with us. Thank you so much.
Elizabeth
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Lizzie , am a lemon 🍋 person I have lemon tea every day , substitute for coffee , and it's really helpful , but that Ashley is a star ⭐ what a way to care for your brother , also I get the message in your post , caring for someone is the best blessing one can receive because it's show you have good personality ,keep it up Lizzie very good post
Yes, my dear Hentley.
As Geoffrey said,
"Some of us need to learn
how to add sugar."
It is such a wonderful feeling
being able to care for someone
and give yourself wholeheartedly.
Enjoy your sweet lemonade today.
Elizabeth
Elizabeth,
I started my lemon blog because of your great message. But I twisted my response after reading Simone's response, also good.
I did not mean to leave you out of the picture, because I appreciate what you wrote. I just want you to know. I think I need more lemon juice to sharpen my mind!
Take care, Friend,
Shirley
Hahaha! That is quite
alright, my dear Shirley.
I believe all of us can
use some lemonade
more and with a little
sweet like Geoffrey
said.
Simone's response
made me hungry. lol
All is good, Shirley
and thank you much
more.
I love you!
Elizabeth
Yes, Geoffrey, most definitely.
You just hit the target there.
Thank you so much, Geoffrey.
Have a sweet lemonade.
Elizabeth
Hello Elizabeth
I use my lemons in many ways as possible
Lemonade
Lemon sorbet
Lemon yummy drizzle cake
Lemon muffin
And I then use the lemon peel to wash my chicken prior to cooking
Also put in water while washing the dishes
And so many, many different versatile ways
Simone , you having them lemon drizzle cake 🎂 , I used to love them but I stop , I was getting real greedy so I break , but now you mentioned LEMON DRIZZLE , I may grab one lol
Yes, my dear, Simone.
Now you are making me hungry.
So many things, as you said,
different versatile ways we
can do with them.
Thank you so much, my dear
Have a blessed weekend.
Elizabeth
Lol
It is easy to make Hentley
Make one and then you can have the nice, light fluffy lemon drizzle cake over and over again ;)
Hello Robert,
Thank you for stopping by
and I do greatly appreciate
you.
Yes, while there is time and
we don't know for how long,
Self-reflection is definitely a
necessity.
Thank you once again, Robert
God bless you!
Elizabeth
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I smell Lemons, Mmmm!
Very beautiful writing Elizabeth, I bookmarked it.
It certainly gets the L out of the world, and returns us to the Words of life if you know what I mean!?!
My lemon of choice would be a Bergamot, Super Mmmm! - atleast to me.
That would be like Our Heavenly Father, like when you smell a baby, He'd be saying, Oh! I know you little one, I created you before I framed the world, You may not remember. because when you chose to put on your flesh suit, you were also given many choices. And because I am the Author of freedom of choice, and I chose you, I give you a lifetime to choose me, or not.
I give you many chances to bring heaven down to earth, because in those moments you may see Me clearly, or not.
You may in those times see yourself, and who you are in Me, or not.
I Am the cure for all of the other illusions induced by incarnation into flesh and your 5 senses life,of which you can rise above, or not.
I can un write the pain memories and traumas received into your flesh mind, perhaps written on your temporary flesh body, no matter how horrible and "real" they seem to be.
You chose them for a purpose in your life, for learning, who you are, and Whose you are, or not.
Listen child, if you center your life around "your" painful trauma, and make it your god, "Have you not chosen some element you get, poor little old me, false admiration, or something as an emotional payoff from being stuck in your past to keep you stuck in your past?"
It's a bad movie but you play it and watch it daily because you are the star actor.
You ingrain yourself into your script, when you should stop socking your energy, your life away into an eddy in a stream, going round and round, embellishing the past, enthroning your past. Maybe child you will get tired of this spinning around yourself, or not.
You have memorized the script, it keeping you tied to this 5 senses realm, while time is running out!
Time is running out for you to work it out.
Which is real and eternal? Which is earthy and sensual and wrong zipcode, of which there are only 2 zipcodes in the end!
How will you complete your choice of a lifetime?
I send you many messengers to help you. a messenger is an angel, or not.
A messenger is a praying grandma, or a grandma you end up praying for!
I sent my Son so 5 senses people like you, through Him, could feel my 4 dimensional love for you, and an open invitation to follow Him, if you want to come home, or not.
Every person making a reservation in heaven MUST be vetted by another person. Or they cannot get in.
(Hint, in all other religions, some point to Me, or did thousands of years ago, until corruption set in.
Abraham and Keturah had progeny that became the Indo-aryans, but in Isaac shall the promises reveal.
So these Indo-Aryan people touched the preAdamic, but I did not choose them. The birth right had already been given.)
You must be vetted to go to heaven. that means someone has (using Suzay's Hawaiian slanguage, "Spocked" you out!) OK'd you!
Yes you heard that right. Some one has to put their whole life on the line for you. That is if you are serious about going to heaven.
And you do have an adversary, who continually will distract you, if you do not continually set limits on your being distracted from the Truth.
(this is why the little people suffer, when their over ruler breaks a universal law!
Here it is: The little people did not confront, their over ruler, and tell him, this thing you did is wrong!. David counted the number of the people, breaking a universal law meant to protect all those inhabitants! He did not die, but plenty of his little people paid the price of not a one of them confronting him on the breaking of that law.
And later, at the end of his spiritual rope, Nathan confronted David, and he responded with a pulverized heart, saving his own life and leaving a record for others to study.)
Your adversary, Sneaky creature even stands in pulpits, proclaiming, "I don't have a Devil, and calmly looks around to see that everyone is still Asleep!
But you have chosen to sit there and not rail against him.
So,you get what you get: the devil in your pastor's flesh suit, proclaiming, I don't have a devil, because he at that moment is the Devil.
Finally my children, for heaven you must be vetted, by another Human being Who put His life on the line for yours.
Heaven has rules, but hell has open borders, and all who wish can come in. Meaning, you can go to hell if you wish!
You choose, and by not choosing you have chosen.
Make your choice be a proclamation, nice and loud, backed by continual action, like what must be done at WA to wipe away the former you that was you, or not.
Love you Elizabeth
Suzay