“When life gives you lemons...use the seeds to plant a whole orchard."
- Anthon St. Maarten

And with the juice, make cake, muffins, and lemon meringue pie.
Just avoid squirting a drop into your eye.
Besides lemonade, many more things can be made.
A squeeze on fish will enhance the dish.
Lemon chicken and rice is also very nice.
Did you know the juice can remove stains and soils?
Have you made a vinaigrette of lemon and oil?
There are many more uses for the seeds, juice, and rind
So the next time life gives you lemons, be grateful and kind.
Everything we receive can be used for something good.
With the gift of hope, this is understood.

With playful love and prayerful joy,
Charlene

THE FIFTH GIFT IS HOPE. 
Through each passage and season,
may you trust the goodness of life. 
- from The Twelve Gifts of Birth.