Sunshine after 72 hours !

It was after 72 hours, the rain did pause for short while during which time the sunshine brightened the garden. 

I was pleasantly surprised by the different visitors to the garden during this short time.

I wondered how these visitors survived the rain for the last few days. 

With over fifty people having lost their lives in the state of Kerala alone during this rain havoc, this season is a harsh imposition on people of Kerala who are yet to recover form the flood devastation of the last year in the same month. 

Each succeeding year the damage seems to be even more distressing and all encompassing than the previous years. 

Last year, Anna I had at least one safe route to go to hospital, but this year even that route is partially under water. Yesterday, when we went to the hospital in an auto-rikshaw, we watched some sights of damage to property. 

It was refreshing to watch these visitors in the garden, because they are survivors. 

They are all small and in one sense most vulnerable to storm and rain. But they overcome the stressful experiences. 

This experience brought cheer to my soul. 

The difficult experiences in life are painful and and dislocating in nature. But there is a life beyond this. 

All the rose flowers in the garden are drooping. But new buds are already in plenty. 

A new life is ready to emerge out of the ashes of a disaster. It is in us to be  open to welcome that new beginning, however enduring it might be.  

There resides within us the prospect so of a new life, if only we pass through the harsh experiences gently and patiently!

M.C.Mathew(text and photo)