There are some flowers that bloom just before the arrival of summer. At the Christian Medical college campus, the temple trees have the early flowers, in white, yellow and crimson colours. When the rest of the green vegetation on the ground dry up and the trees look bare with falling leaves, the campus looks bare and dry. With less foliage in the trees, bird lovers love going for their early morning and evening walks to spot the birds. I found some of them delighted withe the pictures they were able to take of the birds which they could not during the winter season.
This is the mystery of the nature- that it has something special at all seasons for the beholder!
Life too has many seasons. Sometimes we get carried away by happy times or fulfilled times and undervalue difficult and trying times. In fact, life with its fullness befriends us at all the times and seasons although we tend to miss the specialness of difficult times as we are preoccupied with our expectations!
A child who is fond of flowers told me that. ‘During the winter I pick flowers and during summer I gather them from the ground'. For him, the flowers were there always.
I wish we too can look at life through this optic! There is a meaning and significance at all times in our lives whether we are surrounded by easy or difficult times. Life for many poets is a like a river that changes course and direction dependent on the water it has to carry. The water-life remains alive at all times, no matter which direction the river is taking.
There is a life within all of us of God, who made His abode in our lives. That is what Jesus of Nazareth told His followers in his departing message, ‘I am with always..’!
M.C.Mathew(text and photo)
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