Yesterday was a beautiful first day of spring. I went outside to survey the garden. In the fall my husband and son had replaced some logs that held a bank in place. They had dropped cut pieces on the ground were months before flowers had been. However, now in spring those same bulbs had tried to come forth, only to find their tender buds under boards. I moved the offending boards to find that the plants, sensing a small crack of Light, had grown sideways till they reached the edge of the board and then up - in a sort of backwards L.
Hmmm, I thought: Life is kind of like that. We sense the Light, even when it is only a small glint of it, and we grow towards the Light.
Recently for our anniversary my husband and I were looking at the photoes from our wedding 4 years ago. Everyone is familiar, but older. In the kids cases, they are a foot taller now and more "mature" looking, but for most of us, it means more grey hair and more wrinkles. Yes, I thought, the slow march towards death. Huh, how does that fit with my previous thought that all life grows towards the Light?
Then I realized - oh yes, it is the same. Our slow march towards death is also the path back to the Eternal Light. It seems some of us will live shorter lives than we thought we would and others will live much longer than they thought they would. So what of the march - does it matter if all our days our numbered, how we spend those days? How do we make our days count? I think it is not some "productive doing", but rather have we lived those days with Love and with Light? Have you grown towards the Light today?
