Cranberry & Raspberry Fruit Tea

Fruit tea: doesn’t it sound nice? I drank some Cranberry and Raspberry last week. As the hot water was infused a deep red, a sweet and pleasant aroma emanated from the cup. It was a little like potpourri, those nice-smelling bowls filled with dried petals and spices which old ladies were once pleased to keep in their homes.

Unfortunately, it tasted like potpourri, too.

Fruit tea has always managed to disappoint me, despite a deliberate and frequent lowering of my expectations. The taste simply doesn’t match the smell. It might be better if the smell were worse, for I would have nothing against which to compare the flavour, and might find it more tolerable.

So much, like fruit tea, disappoints me: holidays, books, ambitions. I might also add fellow Christians, whose commitment and witness is so frequently substandard. And I must add myself as the source of greatest disappointment: “O wretched man that I am.”

The only one who is always immeasurably better than we imagine, think, taste, see, smell or anticipate is Jesus Christ.

You are fairer than the sons of men; grace is poured upon Your lips; therefore God has blessed You forever. Psalm 45:2

But as it is written: “Eye has not seen, nor ear heard, nor have entered into the heart of man the things which God has prepared for those who love Him.” 1 Corinthians 2:9 (both NKJV).