The guava fruit has its origin in a blossom. One of more suits might emerge form the blossom. The second photos is of a guava fruit that is moving on to its ripening stage. The third photo is when it is still ripening, eaten by Barbets.
The flower to fruit is a bout three months of growth process.
One reason why we have some fruiting trees in the garden is to attract birds to the garden. We do not tie guavas to pluck as most of them would have already been eaten even before it turns mild yellow when ripe!
As I reflect on this process in the garden, I get a sense of the silent events in the garden! A flower becomes a fruit often noticed! The soil nourishes the tree and the process of growth goes on during the day and night !
Finally a fruit becomes an offering to birds.
Just as the garden is the setting for plants and trees, a home is the setting for children to grow up. A mother with her fifteen weeks old baby made a discovery that the more she sang and engaged the baby, the more the baby became alert, attentive and responsive. The smile of the baby became the delight for the parents. It is this baby who will be turning over, holding the neck, sitting support, creeping and independent in sitting. The baby gains these developmental stages and offers the developmental progress to parents in response to what he or she receives from parents.
How important it is to give attention to children to blossom! I feel from the stories of parents, that children when accompanied during the early years, the response from children brings refreshing returns!
In a larger sense, children are our offering to humanity ! Each family on earth perpetuates life in the community by the children, whom parents offer! When they grow up to be adults they lead the affairs of people in each community!
It is as much as children grow up to be men and women of character, conviction and calling, the society becomes a virtuous home to bring wellness to all !
M.C.Mathew(text and photo)
