A spider Lily blessed the garden with its blossom for longer than a week. Even after ten days, some flowers thrive ! As I followed its biological biography during the last ten days, I was surprised by its fragile presence ! Its slender and hollow stem and long petals radiating from the centre withstood heat, humidity and strong winds!
Its presence was a message of resilience!
When the students of Occupational and Physiotherapy led the evening chapel service yesterday at the Christian Medical College, Vellore, the leader said: 'We are a small group of twenty students selected every year to study at CMC. We have a sense of belonging to the community even though we are a small group' !
I heard words of identity and purposefulness in those words. They did not feel subsumed by the large groups of students in different streams of learning. They felt a space for themselves!
To know the purpose of being is an awareness that shall sustain all of us while enduring circumstances! That is resilience!
The spider Lily lived its mission fully before beginning to fade away!
When a group of people came to visit us to campaign for the forthcoming state assembly election, three of them stayed a longer time petting Dulcie. She responded to them warmly! That was a delightful sight to watch as they made efforts to connect with us! They conveyed a sense of presence, which is a fruit of resilient spirit!
M.C.Mathew( text and photo)
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