The campus of the Christian Medical College, Vellore is blooming with flowers currently. It is a visual feast as it is special to this season, following the early monsoon rains.
Birds and flowers occupy the attention of most of the morning and evening walkers.
As I joined with one of them, most of our half an hour conversation was about the different birds and flowers! It was refreshing to listen to this and join in which lifted my spirit!
I was preoccupied as I set out on this walk, which is a snare to which most of us fall especially after an eventful meeting or an engagement.
Becoming present fully to what we are engaged in, rather than stay occupied with the past or the future can bring an inner well being and cheer!
When we are preoccupied, what we bring into our lives is anxiety or worry about which Jesus of Nazareth mentioned in the Sermon on the Mount, 'which of you can add one cubit to your height by worrying..". Sometimes I am prisoner of this preoccupation. This time, I returned from this walk refreshed!
Become present to ourselves as God is present to us in our inmost being- intimacy of presence!
M.C.Mathew(text and photo)
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