The best fruits…
It’s been a while since I’ve sat down to muse a little and as we all experience from time to time there is so much going on that we constantly feel like we’re operating at such a high frequency we just ‘don’t have time’ for things like this that might seem trivial in comparison to ‘work’ or other things we might do.
That said, I think it’s also important to take stock of exactly how that time is truly spent and realise that sometimes we’re just being ‘busy’ for the sake of being ‘busy.
For those of you that know me you might know I have this love / hate relationship with coffee. I enjoy the taste, I like the feelings and focus it can provide, however if i drink it consistently for a period of time, I hate the feeling that I ‘need’ it to function or be at my best.
When that happens, I have to stop drinking it, because I’m now just consuming the beverage for the sake of consuming it. It no longer adds any cognitive enhancement (maybe a slight mood enhancer) however the grumpiness that my family endure post coffee-withdrawl is a small price to pay for a bit of a system reset (sorry wife).
So as I was sitting here (avoiding my phone - that’s another reset) eating my breakfast, I was thinking about this verse that my wife and I had discussed sometime ago about who we give our ‘best fruits’ or ‘first fruits to’.
Essentially there’s a passage in the Bible that talks about how we should give our first / best fruits to God, realising that lately the first thing I’ve been doing is checking my phone and getting drawn into the dopamine spiral of the internet.
For me, those first / best fruits should actually be a moment of reflection, some gratitude and to perhaps give myself a soft reset from the ‘world’ to focus on something a little less material and a little more esoteric.
Anyway, it’s always nice to circle back around to these lessons - I’ve no doubt I will again be drawn into the love / hate relationship with coffee and likewise the bad phone habits, but for now… (at least for today) I’m going to try and enjoy a few things for myself, a few things for family and leave my last / worst fruits for maybe some phone scrolling tonight.
