The Greater coucal was perched at the bifurcation of a branch! It was engaged in the bird calls to all directions.
A branch becomes two at its bifurcation!
Two is a continuation of the one.
In conversations with people, the message I sometimes receive is the longing of people to have a continuation of the same. The two possibilities or options or alternatives do not impress some people.
The two or three even four options are the symbols of diversities for which we have been prepared or formed ! We may be able to engage multiple situations in life and feel relational to all of them.
It is not multitasking to get tired, but integrating different opportunities with a single purpose.
I remember hearing from Johny and Mercy Oommen how their focus was on making a difference to the Adivasi community in Bisum Cuttack. They branched out to the local Advisasi community to educate their children by starting a residential school, training ladies in nursing and volunteers in primary health care and adults in self employment. What happened in the last 25 years is a sea of change in the community in all walks of life.
It is good to have multiple opportunities towards realisation of a mission.
It is a good experience to be at a time in one's life, when different opportunities have a converging purpose to bring a larger purpose into fruition!
Anna and I have a glimpse of this in our lives. When family became our concern, the needs of developmentally challenged children, upbuilding marriage, parenting presence, mid life transition planning, personal development and integrated living became the multiple strands to upbuild family life!
I feel good to have sighted a Greater coucal in our garden and the choice it made to sit at the bifurcation and call out! It was this sighting that clarified for me this aspect of living to bring coherence and convergence to a purpose!
M.C.Mathew(text and photo)
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