Knowing others as hidden treasures!

 

The hope of new life, symbolised in this bud,  represents the aspirations of most of us carry every morning we get up hoping for a good day. 

This bud gives no indication of the colour of the flower it would be shortly!

This represents the mystery that we live with! 

Amidst all that we know and can be known , there is this ground of mystery which resides within us. 

What befalls us and what we shall encounter are often situations for which we were not necessarily fully ready! Yet we live the rhythm of life experiencing resilience and strength! 

This is the heart of the mystery!

We discover more about ourselves when we face situations and go through them, which were least anticipated! 

We often become what we did not design for ourselves. 

Is that not another dimension of the mystery that we are! 

Ou life is an unfolding bud, more of which will become known to us each day!

The bud has the treasure of a flower hidden within. 

Our life has a treasure hidden within! 

I realise that my active years of professional life were spent looking outward for opportunities to be professionally involved to be effective and contributory!

During the last two years since retiring form active professional life, the attention became more inward  to view life as a mystery hidden even to me! 

How amazingly enlarging is an inward journey to find treasures hidden within!

I sense within me a new optic of searching, looking and seeing! It is a treasure I value now. 

The young rose bush with its lone bud in the corner of the garden whose photo is above,  caught my attention, which was unlike the earlier times! The hue of colours on the leaves add to that mystical view to life!

How surprising it would be when I can take more time to view the inner panorama of life lived! Another awaiting experience to encourage the journey towards the mystery of life, which moves further when we feel we are about to behold it!

I wish we view life beyond the utilitarian or existential dimension; it is a sense of wonder and awe about life, which would lead us to regard others as hidden treasures living among us as our neighbours !

M.C.Mathew (text and photo)