The plants offer their colourful presence in the garden! The parents offer their colourful presence in a home by their thoughtful and endearing habits. The workplace becomes a colourful place when the mindful behaviour towards each other is the way of relating! The life in the neighbourhood of every home becomes colourful because there is a caring ambience towards each other!
Every morning, as I welcome the flowers in our garden, what occurs to me is that the plants give spontaneously and habitually! Its giving comes from receiving. The soil and sunshine nourish them to give !
It is when I water them, deseed the plant bed and provide the nutrients, I realise how our giving yields their giving!
All relationships grow and fruity by giving and receiving!
We had an overseas visitor a few days ago, who while visiting India included in his itinerary, meeting us in our home! What a symbol of giving. A brief contact with him about thirty years ago was what made him think of us. He came to recall and refresh memories of that time!
We receive such surprises by way of visits, messages and telephone calls. Thais is what makes us feel touched by kindness and regards which arise from practice of giving and receiving. This is central to all relationships.
We add goodness and kindness through our being and doing to people that we relate to.
That is the message from the colourful presence of plants in the garden!
The two flower vases with colourful flowers in our living room make us feel refreshed, because of their gentle and silent presence! The flowers offer colour, fragrance and nectar. They fade away into oblivion, leaving memories that last for a while!
Every home is a garden of life where lives blossom when giving and receiving become the way of relating!
M.C.Mathew(text and photo)
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