When I began to write my column, the title stemmed from what I have done and the experiences in my life that make up who I am. That is the thread of my life.

Each day I have many thoughts and I wonder about them. Thankfully, we have many avenues in which to explore and fi nd out facts about everything we want to know. Today I ate an apple and found a small shiny, reddish brown seed and began to wonder about creation and millions and millions of ideas that God put together in this world for us. The apple is only one of them.

Have you ever thought about the wonder of an apple seed? Have you ever cut an apple, cored it and taken out the seeds? How many did you fi nd? Seven, eight or nine tiny seeds? Did you ever take the time to examine one of the seeds? Tear it apart? And did you ever wonder about that tiny white sprig of life lying within?

How many apples do you see in that seed? If you really think about it, you can see apples growing around the world that COULD come from one seed. You know the story of Johnny Appleseed who went around the United States planting apple seed. Many of the apples in the United states today came from the seed he planted.

Can you look at an apple seed and visualize for what it was created to be and what it can become? A large red or yellow apple is very beautiful and delicious to eat. All that from one tiny seed.

To me the tiny apple seed represents faith in action. We can look at the apple seed and know that it will reproduce if it is placed in the proper soil and has access to water and the rays of the sun. Life is like that. We are formed perfect in the beginning. What we become depends on all of the circumstances that surround our life as we grow.

When you can think like this, you are moved from the limitations of what you see and are thrust into the inner eye of the Spirit which sees beyond the form of what you see, to the unformed reality of what can be.

Great are the wonders of the world and its creations.