The habit of giving!

The flowers in the garden in front of our cottage looked well yesterday, although by evening they have a drooping look in the heat of the day. 

The photo of the Hibiscus flowers from our neighbour's compound also looked fresh.

What was special at day break yesterday was spotting a spider in the jasmine flower !

 

I went out four times during the day in to the garden in search of this spider to trace its movements during the heat of the day. I was not able to find it. 

A spider of about a centimetre size would have moved away to a better hiding place during the day. 

The flowers normally offer bees, butterflies, Sunbirds, and nectar feeding insects their nectar. 

Some flowers also offer a hiding place for the insects like a spider.

The flowers sustain other lives! Their giving habit is a message about the purpose for which they exist. 

I noticed above two flowers, whose leaves might have been food for the caterpillars! 

A plant offers its leaves and flowers freely to sustain life in a garden!

A garden is a symbol of giving to nourish!

That is a vocation of immense of inspiration!

A catholic priest was in the habit of donating blood twice a year. He was so moved by the story of a family who was grieving because the only bread winner was in renal failure and needed kidney transplant. The priest offered his kidney. Fifteen years after the kidney donation and restoring life to another person, he continues to be in a giving habit. The Kidney foundation that he is associated with is a voluntary organisation that looks out for people in distress and provides renal dialysis and facilitates kidney donation! This priest is most humorous and is a friend of the weak!

Giving sustains life!

For me in the seventh decade of my life, this message is a call to live for giving!

The Holy Week starting from this Sunday is one season when we get an opportunity to meditate on the life and message of Jesus of Nazareth who lived to serve ! 

The Christian Medical College is celebrating its 125 years of its serving vocation since it was founded by Dr Ida Sophia Scudder. Its logo is 'not to be mistered unto but to minister', taken from the sayings of Jesus of Nazareth.

M.C.Mathew (text and photo)