Who taught: Rachel

Grape Vine Yard (source: http://www.fruitipedia.com/)

There is a bible study that I go on Thursdays. It is a small group but I really love sharing our thoughts on the Bible. Last week, the bible study was at my place and Rachel got first.

Since it is during the week, we start our meeting talking about our lives, mostly with regard to work. She had a rough day at her work. While she was telling me her story about a very interesting development at her work, she said, “I heard it through the grapevine.”

From the context, I was able to understand but that was my first time hearing the expression. Could you guess what it is, my friends? Let me help you. Have you ever been to a grape yard? There are a lot of lines of grapevines but, if you look at them closely, you will notice how they are all intertwined. They all touch each other in one way or the other.

Therefore, there can be one grapevine plant at one end and there is another grapevine plant at the other end of the line. And if you follow the vines, chances are they are actually connected through the vines in the middle.

What do you think? Can you feel it? So, If you hear something through the grapevine, that means you heard it from someone and that someone also heard it from someone else and that someone else again heard it from someone else.

That’s how I feel about the expression, “hear something through the grapevine.”

Well, there are a lot of things we hear through the grapevine, right? Mostly, rumors. But at the same time, where there is smoke, there is fire.

Sometimes, though, it is better to be disconnected from other grapevines to not get involved into any of those strange rumors.