What fascinates me each time when I watch a sunbird gathers nectar from a flower is the ease with which it does it, while perched lightly in the flower or leaves adjacent to it !
The economy of effort!
Receiving the nectar without any indication of stressful effort!
The time a Sunbird takes to gather nectar is short! It moves from one flower to another gating the nectar!
To me this sight is a call to learn to work easily, attentively and purposefully!
I realise from some recent experiences that it is when, one is fully present to the context, it becomes comfortable to engage in the task with a measure of ease! The effort gets compounded when one is not present, distracted or anxious!
The secret, about a Sunbird is the way it arrives and departs. It flies directly on to the flower and looks around to choose flowers to gather the nectar. After gathering it looks around before flying away to the next site!
This observant behaviour makes the arrival and departure is worthy of attention. It uses its sensing ability to plan for the nectar gathering! It conserves its efforts and is precise and focussed!
The Ignition life rhythm is 'pray and work' !
Prayer is a habit of becoming present to oneself in order to become present to the God of our lives present with us! It is this which the Ignition spirituality refers to as 'communion'. It is this communion with God which brings awareness, sense of presence and insight! It is from this 'gain' of inner fullness one moves out to work, in which case work becomes lighter and natural. The pause one takes when a task is finished is a transition time to 'return' to the inner presence before engaging the next!
This rhythm of arriving to work 'full' and leaving to move on to the next 'full' is what makes every work an expression of our inner being!
I have recently realised that this rhythm is a sacred experience. It is the stress of a task that reminds me of not having been made ready by the rhythm of 'pray and work'!
The graceful arrival and darter of a Sunbird is a message if inspiration to me!
The economy of effort !
Work from the fullness within! That resonates within me !
M.C.Mathew(text and photo)
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