The recent spell of rains brought revival of the garden with new flowers! It is too early for the Lilies to blossom. But they will soon bring new look to the garden with the hedge around the front garden to our cottage colourful and florescent!
The fruit bearing trees celebrate their presence; the Bulbuls feed at the feeding station... the garden is a place where fullness of life is manifest now!
A family sent photos of their baby, now nearing three months asking if they could visit us!
The joy of life is all around us!
This brings an awareness of how life on earth is cushioned by warm messages of hope and wellness to every human soul! I often drift from this consciousness when I feel carried away by the signs of ageing in my body!
Paul the apostle of hope, who lived vocationally in uplifting others by his writings in the New Testament of the Bible, once referred to the human body in 2 Corinthians 4:7, "But we have this treasure in earthen vessels, that the excellency of the power may be of God and not of us". He called his readers to live regardfully because the treasure of God's presence is the ambience of the human soul.
I felt revived as I walked in the garden seeing the flowers and fruits, because they speak the language of giving away what was given to them. They live to blossom and bear fruits!
An Oligarch who owns SpaceX is desperate to introduce his satellite communication net work, Starlink in India. But two other Indian Oligarchs who have monopoly of about 75 percent of the internet service in India offer stiff resistance. This is the struggle of those who are possessed by an acquisitive culture- to have more of the same ! They live and function anxiously and stressfully!
The eighty five years old jurist and South African voice of justice for those affected by war crimes, Ms Navanethem Pillay was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize of 2026. A commentator spoke of her as one 'who gave her voice to the voiceless at the United Nations, pleading for them to be treated regardfully by the nations who inflicted loss and pain'. Her response to the Nobel Prize, was, ' Did I do so much to get the Nobel prize'! She lives her life altruistically and compassionately bearing others in need !
The Oligarchs want more for themselves. People of Ms Pillay's lineage want more for people who suffer!
A garden is a place of equal opportunities and space for all!
It occurred to me that there is also an inner garden space in all of us. It is a sanctuary of memories, recollections, experiences, people, thoughts that structure our life and consciousness of being loved to overflow with love. It is in this inner space we grow discovering who we are and whose we are!
At twilight in the mooning, I noticed this Sunbird perched safe and secure in a slender rose stem with thorns between its paws. Its upward look transcended the thorns. It had a flight in its sight! That inner orientation gave the Sunbird comfort and direction, while perched in a thorny bush!
The inner space, the garden within, offers the readiness to live well in our testing and transient circumstances!
M.C.Mathew(text and photo)
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