I looked around to get a glimpse of the garden when it was getting dark and 'fearful' to look at, as the branches of the rubber trees leaning on to our backyard from the adjacent property were threateningly swaying.
What beheld me was the Ixora flowers in the garden, A Bulbul in a resting posture and a Kingfisher in the coconut palm with its wings and feathers soaked in rain water.
My thoughts of what might happen with such a wind and imminent rain got entangled with the question of the disciples of Jesus while they were caught in a storm in the sea, when Jesus of Nazareth was sleeping on the stern, ' Teacher, do you not care that we are perishing'?(Mark 4:38).
The thought of harm dominates human subconsciousness which surfaces when there is a difficult situation!
The Bulbul in the garden and the Kingfisher in the palm and the Ixora flowers in the garden caught my attention to revise my lingering thoughts of 'fear' about what might happen.
The cry of the newborn to breathe at birth is a universal phenomenon. Following the cry and having breathed, the baby returns to sleep till the baby is awake a hour or two later ready to feed from the mother's breast!
The baby receives its breath to live and food to flourish!
The Psalm 131 in the Bible is a vivid representation of the state of a baby. The Psalmist shared about himself in an imagery, ' Surely I have composed and quoted my soul; like a weaned child rests against his mother' (v2).
The storm outside and the calm within!
That is a wake up call to aspire for!
I found a wave of comfort within, when I was reminded of the two existential questions that I meditate upon often, 'who am I' and 'whose am I' !
M.C.Mathew (text and photo)
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