Apples

I am either going crazy or have become a really deep thinker . . .

. . . So crazy and so deep that I realized as I was washing an apple for Sarah tonight that an apple has similarities to humans. . .

. . . Did you know that apples have belly buttons?

When I told this to Elizabeth & Rachel they gave me puzzled looks and then Elizabeth pointed to the blossom end of the apple she was eating.  But she was wrong. So then I explained where and why apples had belly buttons, and it was if a light bulb went on in their heads.  My own crazy thought turned a little deeper at that point.

Let me explain . . .

We all know that apples grow on trees.  An apple is attached to a tree by the stem. "The stem is how the Mommy tree provides food to the baby apple" (that was Elizabeth's explanation of the purpose of the stem. Pretty good huh?).

As I twilled Sarah's apple in my hands tonight to remover the stem for her I realized the stem of the apple is much like the umbilical cord of a developing fetus.  A belly button on humans is formed from where the umbilical cord it cut after a baby is born.  Thus the top of the apple where the stem is removed is an apple's belly button.

OK, three days home alone with my kids while Paul has been out of town has left me a little nutty.  But hang in there.  What I realized as I was talking to Elizabeth and Rachel is how perfectly our world and existence is designed.  We, humans, our beautiful world and everything in it was designed by a wise Father in Heaven, the God of the Universe. In case I was ever inclined to wonder, which I have never been, if we just evolved or this world came into existence from colliding forces in the atmosphere, I was taught otherwise tonight.

My little lesson in an apple's belly button left me in awe at the wonder of His creations.