Anna and I have been living in my parent's cottage for three years now. From the time we came here to care for my mother, have been captivated by the vegetation around the cottage with fruit bearing trees and wild overgrowth. We decided to plant more as we knew that some trees had to be cut or pruned as they became tall and was at risk during frequent storm during the prolonged monsoon of almost six months here.
Having planted over one hundred trees, we decided to cut about forty trees during this month. As each tree fell, when axed, I went back the memory lane to fifty or more years when all those trees were planted by my father. The labourers in the farm over these years tended and watered these trees and now they have become timber for use. They lost their life but were self-giving even then.
Our lives have this inherent calling! When we live we can add goodness all around and and when our life is over, we would still be able to leave behind memorials of service and self-giving vocation.
Blessed are those who live to love and long to do good! It is what is lacking often. We get intimidated by the evil around us and get carried by injustice! Yes there is a place and need for it. But fighting injustice does not fill the vacuum in human consciousness which goodness and mercy alone call fill.
The writer to Romans, in chapter 11, makes a concluding confession of discovery,'For from Him and through Him and to Him are all things..'. What a calling to live with!
M.C.Mathew(text and photo)
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