This Morning
I trust this day will find you in the easy experience of
just living with joy and appreciation. We all participate in the theater of
life and often worry about innocuous things and events when in fact the outcome
is never the lesson, only the doing is.
This Thursday morning is one of those special epiphany beginnings.
It’s a lazy day for me. I have nothing I have to do today. We need days like
this every so often.
An early morning dampness and the expectation of rain
encourages a fresh look at the meaning of life. At first, finding meaning in
just a look around seems impossible, but then, if we move within the glance, to
the power of the inner observation, meaning abounds.
I walked in the garden. A coffee cup cradled in my hands.
The House Wrens were already busy with their young in a potted fern where they
built their nest. Five eggs were there when I first looked. I don’t think they
all will survive. The adults have such a sweet sound, a melodic warble that
sustains a lasting smile.
The little ones are not yet ready to leave the nest. What a
leap of faith that is for these tiny feathered creatures. Their only experience
is sharing a nest and being fed and then one day they must jump into flight and
life. There is hesitation, but no fear. Why is that? Trust, I suspect, is the
freedom to take the leap. We humans could use a little more trust and a little
less fear.
The brilliant yellow Day Lilies ascend their color to match
the rising sun, each one finding a way to the light. They share water and the
ground with other plants and flowers taking no more space that what they need.
Another lesson for humankind if we choose to see it.
May your day be filled with grace, appreciation and the awareness
of nature.
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