The Price of an Apple

The story of an apple started with a small lifeless

seed…

Though no one knows how many million years ago…

Nor has anybody seen or heard how it came down to

earth or how it welled out of ground.

For a million times it has become a tree, and a million times a seed.

This tiny lifeless thing has also become a fruit, a leaf

and a blossom…

It has neither perished, nor worn out. Neither has its taste and

odor diminished…

For generations it has died and revived. It went in the soil deceased, but found life in

there…

A fistful of black soil has turned into tons of fruit in a mysterious

manner…

The day light seemed to The day light seemed to know what to do as it know what to do as it

penetrated through the penetrated through the leaves of the apple tree. So leaves of the apple tree. So

too did the wind.too did the wind.

The rain found familiar land

as it went down to the

roots from the surface.

And in a building constructed by a tiny seed. Machinery started to

work.. silently and quietly.

Flowers have been embroidered,

thousands of leaves have been woven for weeks…

No one, however, heard the

noise of the workbench.

Meanwhile, the apple tree has

hosted innumerable guests. He has

nurtured all by the permission of the

Lord.

When the time came, the fruits

started to appear on the

leaves..

By one, two, five, ten and

finally hundreds..

The soil became The soil became more and more more and more

exuberant.exuberant.

It looked as if it It looked as if it was giving by was giving by the hands of the hands of

the tree the tree something it something it

didn’t didn’t possess…possess…

However, what it gave was actually the product of the work of a mysterious power

that could bring out dead from the living…

Soil, water, light Soil, water, light and air lined up and air lined up on the leaves as on the leaves as

the fruits of the fruits of mercy…mercy…

In each one of the In each one of the fruits, a quantity fruits, a quantity of vitamin C has of vitamin C has been deposited been deposited equal to daily equal to daily need of one need of one

person…person…

Each one of the fruits has been tightly fastened by a very thin skin

and packaged so that it could remain nutritious…

A sweet odor was added to make it more appetizing…

It was sweetened and

watered so that it could pass through

the throat easily…

The factories kept on working silently and quietly for weeks

and months…

Those passing by the tree didn’t Those passing by the tree didn’t notice what were relayed to the notice what were relayed to the

thousands of the fruits from the deeps thousands of the fruits from the deeps of soil.of soil.

No one has seen how the daylight gathered by the leaves and minute particles of air penetrating through

the stoma functioned inside the tree.

Although thousands of factories worked day and night in a small

garden, no one could became aware of it.

One day, mankind saw that hands in abundance were being extended to him. Those hands were not able to carry their

load.

He reached the hands, too…

and took and took what was what was given to given to

him.him.

Then he repeatedly kissed and smelled the gift sent down to him from Invisible Generous One. He

recited that glorious name,

silently…

and praised onto him whole-

heartedly…

In fact, the price asked of him was no more than

this…

Text: Ümit ŞİMŞEK

Presentation: Ahmet YORDAM

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