What is special about the golden hour walk in the morning! It is the fresh air, coolness of the morning, sights and scenes, other walkers, birdcalls and bird flights between trees...!
I stop to watch the movements in the adjacent trees and trace the birdcalls to the trees and shrubs.
What is so special about these sights! One bird is singing and another is returning the birdcall; a squirrel is feeding on honey; an eagle is resting on a fragile tree top, honey suckers are in a shrub full of flowers..!
They are in one sense just ordinary things, but there is a message that I carried back from each of them.
A bird is singing because it is hoping for a reciprocal bird call from a possible mate. The squirrel and honey suckers have found their meal and the Eagle is looking around from a height to spot its feed!
Each of them is pursuing its existential need!
The existential need at this time for all of us is to protect ourselves from corona viral infection! It is a challenge!
With pursuit of any existential need there is anxiety and stress!
During this season of lent before the Holy Week, when we revisit the scene in Gethsemene and Golgotha, we recall the story of Jesus of Nazareth, who too faced anxiety and stress, so much so 'His sweat was like blood' ! But he triumphed over his stress by turning His attention to others by forgiving them, healing a soldier whose ear was cut, and pardoning a thief on trees cross.
To so live that we turn our pursuit of life or need to be a means of provision for others is an opportunity. It is the true vocation of living!
M.C.Mathew (text and photo)
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