Just a few days before the dawn of a new year! It is a transition time in human history and in our personal history.
This picture from our garden is a symbol to me of the year that is behind us and the year ahead of us!
The background of this picture is most hazy! But the buds and the flower stand out.
The year behind us joins the biography of our lives. Only memories and experiences remain, that too with fading clarity! But they exist. It is a good time to summarise the year and refresh oneself with the life lessons of the year.
It is this exercise which would free us to receive the bouquet of flowers awaiting us in 2019!
One way of summarising the year behind us is to recall them as 'peeks and valley' experiences. The ups and downs of the year created the inner fabric of our lives. Its colourful tapestry can only be discovered when we view them through the prism of consciousness and awareness.
The new year season is often viewed as partying time; instead view them as family times. I wish as families we would sit sane around candle lights, children and adults together, to share and hear the peek and valley experiences of life in 2018.
Life is valuable only when memories are refreshed. It creates gratefulness within us and make us feel all the more connected with people who form part of of our lives and to the eternal reality of God, who is the giver of life!
What is behind and what is before are both GIVEN to us! It is in creating time we can RECEIVE them and enlarge our lives!
M.C.Mathew(text and photo)
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