We have an open well close to our cottage from which we draw water to irrigate the garden!
I noticed this crow, who came for water. There was no water in the bucket.
I have been looking for a direction for the work that I am currently involved at the hospital. Although it has become a Child Development Centre with a reasonable level of quality and service profile, it has a team that is changing almost every year. Two left recently after marriage. A third is getting married shortly. We have five vacancies in the department for professionals and we are still waiting!
To be waiting in anticipation does not meet the immediate need. As I watched this crow fly away looking for its drink elsewhere, I felt awful. I wish it had come to our birdbath outside our cottage!
How we do feel when we feel denied of what we are looking for!
I came to a new consciousness about it when a mother talked about her daughter who is lagging behind in studies! Her only daughter as a single mother has been her hope! Now, that too would not get fulfilled as her learning difficulties are both emotional and organic!
What moved me after listening to her is the help she is currently offering to tow children in the neighbourhood to help them in their home work, as their parents discontinued schooling after third standard. This single mother is filling her void, while waiting for her daughter to do better, by reaching out to two other children to provide what she can!
She is overcoming her disappointment as well as finding strength to wait and hope, seeing the two children do well at school!
When we do not get what we look for, our hope can be sustained by turning our attention to enlarge our mindfulness!
M.C.Mathew(text and photo)
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