Apple Peels

Mary’s Monday Musings to Quilt Encouragement

 

Apple Peels

When my mother was a girl, it was a domestic accomplishment to peel an apple so that the peel came away in one long, unbroken strip. Then the young girl would toss the peel behind her over her left shoulder and turn to decide what letter the peel formed. Girls would giggle over the superstition that the initial belonged to the man the girl would marry. Sometimes the girls tossed the peel over and over until, finally, it looked the most like the initial of their current heart throb. My friends and I tried it a couple of times when we were young, but, even if I succeeded in peeling an apple in one continuous strip, I couldn’t see the peels ever resembled any letter at all.

 

I’m relieved that peeling an apple in one strip is no longer a test for a successful wife and immensely glad I wasn’t sealed into marrying the man whose initial matched the squiggle of a tossed peel. How much better for young girls to ask the Lord to lead them to a good, godly man;   and, while they wait, to develop their living skills and develop understanding of human nature. All of us can pray for young people to find good mates. Pray they develop the valuable foundation for marriage of putting another ahead of themselves. For the benefit of the next generation, ask God to prepare girls and boys to establish good, healthy marriages that keep Jesus at their center.