Receiving and labouring to receive !

I watched yesterday two events taking place in nature silently in our garden!

The first is the plants giving flowers and cuttings and seeds to continue their presence. They create the continuity for the future !

The second was the effort of the spider to weave its web to draw insects to feed on. The spider in this blog did get its feed. A small spider masterminded its strategy to continue the story for its species. 

A life is worthwhile only as much it generates a continuity of purpose.  

The plants give life to generations of plants; a spider weaves as a habit to attract its feed. In both instances, there is a purpose that is revealed. 

The plants give; the spider labours to exist. 

The soil gives the plant its resources; its roots can draw the nutrition form t soil.  It is not so  with the spider. It toils effortfully and has to wait for its feed.  

These are two contrasting stories of the ways of living. 

A child who is developmentally well receives from his or her environment and prospers. But a child who is developmentally challenged is limited to receive the resources from the environment for him or her to prosper. He or she has to be provided for. I suspect that a developmentally challenged child struggles to find support to grow and find the path ahead. 

At the end of having been involved with such children for the last forty years, I find that many children with neuro-developmental needs wait like the spider to find enough resources to move on. 

Most developmentally challenged children create a web of behaviour which convey their distress or inability, which is viewed by rest of us as disruptive behaviour. Let me suggest that their behaviour call our attention to recognise their need for understanding, support, consideration and kind gestures to accompany them.

I wish we receive gratefully what is given to us; in so doing we live mindfully of those who struggle to live and find their purpose! Their future is dependent on how much we care to enable them to find their purpose by timely support!

M.C.Mathew(text and photo)