Have you ever said just the right thing, and watched someone you love light up? The Biblical Psalms say that the right word is like golden apples in a silver bowl. (Being an imaginative child, I always assumed this was real metal… but I suspect not everyone in Ye Olde Times was running around with the golden apples of myth… and unless they’re stainless steel, silver bowls tend to be a mite pricey, not to mention annoying to clean.) When I said just the right thing to someone who needed to hear it today, I felt like I had been given gold for real. It’s lovely.
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“an apple a day”
a saying to keep healthy
imagine the gift
of sending golden apples
showering like silver coin
You are a golden apple giver!!!
(I wish I had you to read the whole Bible to me. I’d like it more than I do…)
It’s one of the things I love most about my job — making children’s faces light up just as often as I possibly can!
@divatobe: Clearly, the Psalmist did not quite think that metaphor through… or else he had an eensy bowl, so the apple couldn’t roll around…
From my perspective, you’ve spent many years scattering golden apples all ’round your path. (And can you imagine the din of metal fruit in a metal bowl? )