As we watched the first Lilly to bloom towards the evening today, I was surprised by a special hue of colour the dusk brings to the flowers different from how it appeared in the morning !
The flowers bring different experiences to to different people. For me the flowers are fresh, fragile and fragrant!
The flowers with their different meanings bring hope, to say the least!
During the summer the surface of the ground has no semblance of any lily plant. The bulbs remain submerged under the earth. With the first monsoon rain, the shoots and leaves sprout and stay like that almost till winter time when the flowers appear.
We wait for nine months to have some flowers for three months!
This to me is symbolic for humans! We are called to bear fruits to use a Biblical metaphor! Jesus of Nazareth during one of his pilgrim walks looked for fruits in a tree and he did not find any! But there is a message here- we bear fruits only at the appointed time! We grow during the rest of the time to become ready to bear fruits!
M.C.Mathew(text and photo)
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