I love bananas, especially the real big ones. A banana is an amazing powerhouse of energy. However, we sometimes overlook an amazing part of the banana, the peel. The peel, besides being a very efficient wrapper to keep the banana fresh and dry, also has another very important function: to announce when it is the best time to eat the great fruit inside. You see, when the peel is green we know that the banana isn’t ready yet, but when it turns yellow we know that the time has come to peel it and eat it.
This is an absolute miracle that deserves studying! All fruits are green when they are still "cooking" on the tree. During this time, they hide by blending in with the green leaves of the tree.
They are hiding because they know that their purpose is to be eaten by creatures which possess color eyesight.
However, when they are ready, they stick out like a sore thumb! 
Oranges turn orange; grapefruits turn yellow, and so on. They are screaming "we are now ready to fulfill our purpose! Come eat me!
So this week I had some weird bananas. They were still greenish and didn’t look ripe yet. I was hungry, so I went and peeled one. To my surprise, the banana was already overripe and soft. The ripeness and peel color were really out of sync. Then it dawned on me that this wasn’t an accident. It made me realize how often we take for granted the great miracle that the peel and ripeness are in sync! We stupid humans don’t appreciate things until we lose them, or they go wrong. So now I felt great gratitude to Hashem for this great miracle that shows when we should and when we shouldn’t eat fruit.
We can turn every meal we eat into a lesson of Hashem’s kindliness to us if we just open our eyes to see it.
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