My apple tree

Yesterday at church the a comparison between women & apple trees was made.

Women are like apple trees, the BEST ones are at the top!

When relating this statement to real life we see how a lot of great women are single & wonder what is the reason. Well who really wants to take the extra effort to get that awesome apple at the top of the tree when those other apples are so reachable (yes, some tarnished, but convenient.) Ladies, don't move your apple to the bottom of the tree, remain at the top & know your Boaz is soon to come. 

When relating the apple tree analogy to other thing in life we think about the goals we want to achieve (our visions). The goals we want to get to are at the top of the tree, yet some of us want to settle for "reachable" goals in which those usually weren't our original plans. Don't allow your vision(s) to go in vain simply because you are willing to keep climbing to the top. Keep climbing, you will make it. Someone once said: "In order to get things in life you've never had you must do things you've got to do things you've never done!"


Another apple tree analogy comes from my good friend Erykah Badu. Her song Appletree she made a lot of really powerful statements:

See I picks my friends like I pick my fruit
& Granny told me that when I was only a youth
I don't go around trying to be what I'm not
I don't waste my time trying ta get what you got
I work at pleasin' me cause I can't please you
and that's why I do what I do
My soul flies free like a willow tree...


And if you don't want to be down with me
You don't want to pick from my apple tree...