The blooming lilies and fruiting tree!

Each day I find more lilies blooming in our garden!

Amidst the gloom of war in West Asia and Middle East, one keeps looking for signs of hope for peace and respite from further escalation!

Although there is no sign of any peace initiative in the horizon, with more Lilies flowering, I feel drawn by a mystery. The bulbs of Lilies remain in the soil dormant for most part of the year. At one time the bulbs give only foliage ! During this season every year, they give flowers. This season of about three months brings a colourful look to the garden!

All of us require consoling thoughts to bring rest to our soul when we live in a disheartening ambience of human suffering due to war! 

My first impression of seeing only one cashew fruit in each of the bunch of flowers above, brought a disappointed feeling. While staying with that thought, a consolation sprang within. Each of the cashew when ripe has the potential to be a seed, sapling and tree in future! The prospect of three trees from one tree in the future, with each tree blossoming to give many fruits! That changed the way I received this scene! There is more insight beneath than just the first impression in most instances. 

The above Lily flowers bring the message of blossoming in due season. The fruits bring the message of the prospect of the little multiplying! 

I have two photos of Berlin city, one covered in snow sent by a friend in December. The second photo from this friend is a recent one of the sign of spring in the garden!

             

I found this contrast to be a reconciling reality to live with. The current global situation is akin to a frozen season where harmony, peace and relationships remain hidden. But the spring shall be the norm sooner or later! 

I feel drawn by this message of hope the garden gives me when I feel visited by the blooming lilies dancing in the breeze!

A hymn comes to my mind:

"O Lord, all the world belongs to you;

And you're making all things new,

What is wrong, you forgive,

And the new life You give

Is what is turning the word upside-down

The world's loving to its friends;

But Your way of loving never ends

Loving enemies too

And this loving with you

Is what's turning the world upside-down.

The world lived divided and apart;

You draw, all together and we start

In Your body to see

That in fellowship we

Can be turning world upside-down...."

M.C.Mathew(text and photo)