20 January, 2025

Each day brings hope!


 


I wondered yesterday, what is certain everyday in our garden!

The tree will give its fruits; flowers will blossom, and birds will come searching for food and shall find it !


What was even more fascinating to see the Bulbul engaged in bird calls to announce the  availability of food.

These are regularly occurring sights and events in our garden! 


About three hundred meters away on a tall dry branch of a tree, I noticed the Bulbul above, perched while it was drizzling at day break!

It too starts the day with the certainty that it shall find its feed for the day!

During the day, there were few conversations with friends. There were sad and delightful experiences to recollect. One of them, feeling heavy following a difficult experience said, 'This too will become history'!

Each of us is a person formed and shaped by our history and biography! 

A person having been through a gruelling experience recently  recalled the many affirming experiences of the recent months, which subsumed the recent difficult experience. 

The inner canvas of our life is within our domain. What we draw in that canvas is our choice! 

For the two birds above, the day break brings a certainty about their daily provisions. They do not sow, reap or gather food in a barn!

The thousands after twenty months of war in Gaza will begin rebuilding their lives with nothing of their own to support them! Neither houses nor resources or families!

I read about initiatives in different places to offer provisions for their rebuilding! They are signs that we live relationally and mindfully!

I find that birds are messengers of hope, pointing us to some certainties in life!

M.C.Mathew (text and photo)





 


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