During the last eleven years since Anna and I started living in our cottage, the trees around it have spread out their branches that the cottage is hidden from sight from the gate.
I view this every day when I return home. I have felt that it carries a message for my daily living.
There are times and seasons in one's life, when living quietly and obscurely become the way of life.
It is not withdrawing or quitting from the vocation in life, but a season of inner pilgrimage into the canvas of life to get closer to the tapestry that has evolved in seven decades of life.
The truth of life is hidden in the biography of one's life. The cardinal calling in life which led a person into a life time journey is what would unfold, when one can stay hidden to have the privacy to be on a transactional inner journey.
As many experiences, which were ordinary to our life fade away one by one, there is less clutter and distracting calls for feverish pursuit of more of the same.
When more of the same is no more a pursuit, what was waiting to be born within will become the centre of one's life.
The flowers remind us of the fruits that would emerge soon!
In the fullness of time the flowers become fruits.
That is how life can be envisioned !
From the season of flowering to bearing fruits, there is a journey of waiting!
To remain hidden is a call for that to happen!
M.C.Mathew(text and photo)
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