A caterpillar !

By the time of the Easter this caterpillar would have become a butterfly, that is my hope.

When dragon flies and butterflies have disappeared from our garden, this sighting yesterday was a reason to wait in anticipation. Even Dulcie joined me to watch this caterpillar gently move around the cluster of leaves. Her subdued growling was an indication of something strange to see!

Sometimes even such a sight is good enough to rekindle hope and expectation.

If there is one caterpillar there would be more of them in the vicinity.

Every time the Magpie Robins came near this bush, there are few of them resident in our garden, I feared for this caterpillar. I had to gently scare the Robins away from this bush lest the caterpillar falls prey to them. 

Although the plants become bare without leaves when there are few caterpillars on them, the sight of the colourful butterflies fluttering in the garden sometime soon compensates for the loss. 

The loss and gain are delicately balanced in life. 

Today being Sunday, those who who normally go to church would spend time at home as common worship is suspended as a precaution to break the transmission chain of corona infection. Not going for a common worship is a loss. But is there a Gian!.

I received a mail yesterday form a friend: 'I am discovering the richness being alone during this stay at home time. In this aloneness, I hear a voice from within in response to the reading of the Scripture or the stanza of hymn'. I did not have such an experience for a long time'. 

A small but a significant discovery which hopefully would grow within to feel near to the Spirit within.

A season such as this, lenten season for the followers of Jesus of Nazareth without being able to go to church,  a stay at home season for others to protect from corona virus infection, and a period of agony for those who have no job or income... it is a time of much appraisal and disorder.

Even in amidst this, there might be something precious as a starting point for an inner journey of awakening and enlightenment.

M.C.Mathew (text and photo)