A bud becomes a flower unless it is damaged before its time to become a flower!
Becoming open is a process for a purpose!
A bud remains a mystery before it is fully open!
A plant attains its full identity only when its flowers are open!
All humans go thorough this stage of becoming a flower from being a bud. The seven stages of Ericsson is a vivid compilation of the transitions before a person fully arrives at his or her life's fullness !
A closed bud is only a limited expression of a flower or a plant!
I find this an interesting dimension to explore! Some families tell their stories and others struggle to withhold their stories. Having been in the role of listening to families for forty years, I find this as a pointer to the human nature. Some live to to tell their stories and some others to conceal their stories.
Our lives can be pathfinders for others. Only as much as we tell our stories confessionally and transparently we make our lives as way marks for others.
Every life is sacred because God is at work their lives and manifest. It is only when we have a sense of reverence towards others and regardful of their storylines, we become a garden of neighbours instead of just being an individual plant living in wilderness.
It is here I find it difficult! We tend to remember others because of their faults or acts of commission or omission, rather than because of the light they tried to be during a season of their lives.
Becoming present to others calls for openness!
What is life without it becoming meaningful to others!
It is likely that a flower might stay in a plant till it falls off or might be gathered for a flower arrangement in a vase! Whatever might be its course in its life time, it completes its purpose of of being an offering to others.
I find this as a recurring theme in my life during these days, as I prepare myself to retire from formal positions of responsibilities! A flower and a candle are alike as they give while living!
Live by giving!
This comes to me as a reminder from the desert roses that I watched in our garden for two weeks before the buds became flowers!
M.C.Mathew(text and photo)
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