Boy, here is one that I have fought all my life, at least the translation that most people give it.  The standard interpretation is that you are responsible for what you produce.  Now that sounds reasonable.   In fact to that degree, do I believe in this statement but when it comes to the way that people want me to use this, I fully disagree. 

The fact that my body had the ability to divide into multiple bodies is not a talent.  It is a biological fact that happens to bodies.  All bodies on this planet have this ability.  People want you to be responsible for all the bodies that you create.  That is where the problem happens.

I did not create the beings that live in the bodies that I created.  I do not have control over them.  I do not tell them what to think or how to think. 

When these bodies were little and the beings in them were trying to find out what the game on this planet was and what the rules were, I took responsibility for them.  It was my job to see that they understood the rules.  (Even I don't agree with all the rules.)

As these bodies and beings became functional, it was my turn to allow them to do just that. 

I remember being very pleased with the beings that were attracted to the bodies that I created.

For the most part I have enjoyed being around them. 

It is at the point where they became adults that my responsibility unit shifted to being a responsible friend to these beings.  They have often times done things that I would never have thought of doing or doing something in a way that I wouldn't have done. 

I have a friend who always makes me feel that my children, grown that they are today, are still attached to me in some manner.  They are not!!!!!   When I hold my hands out, I see no extension cords attached to other beings. 

This does not mean that I don't love these beings, I do.  I love them a lot but again I am not attached to them in any manner other than as friends.  If they should chose not to be my friend, then it is sad but I have to allow this.

So if the cells that came out of my body in the form of a baby are not my fruit, what is?  It is what I, as a being can create!  Sure I ate the right stuff to make a body but I can think the right stuff to understand things?

My fruit is not in the form of a child but in the form of the beings that I connect with.  It is the thoughts that I think and the things that I do that are "my" fruits. 

As much as I love my children and am able to help them when they need it, I must allow them to struggle with their world as I have had to do.  Do we not learn from our struggles?  Some lessons are only learned that way. 

I remember when my children were little, (I see this even today) a friend of mine would ask her son to tell me something and while he was doing that, she would mime the words that were coming out of him.  How sad that she had given birth to an extension of herself and couldn't let go.  She wouldn't allow him to talk by himself. 

My fruits are many.  I do a lot of different things.  I am proud of what I create in my world.  Having a wonderful relationship with another person is a gift.  It is something to work for but not own.

Is this something that only women are asked or are men judged by what their children are doing?

I will continue to be fruitful into my old age and when you see me, don't ask about my children, but rather ask what I have been doing.  If I wish to share something that my children have accomplished and they have allowed me to do that, I will.

May your fruits be many and wonderful.