Spring with its cold edges still fills our atmosphere. Curious that, looks like spring, feels like frost. Never mind sometimes we get things mixed up. Things aren’t always as they seem!
I was recently reading an excellent book KITCHEN TABLE WISDOM by Rachel Naomi Remen, md. I found this and want to share. I thought it a good message, especially as we continue to celebrate Easter:
‘We are, in a certain way, defined as much by our potential as by its expression. there is a great difference between an acorn and a little bit of wood carved into an acorn shape, a difference not always apparent to the naked eye. The difference is there even if an acorn never has the opportunity to plant itself and become an oak. Remembering its potential changes the way in which we think of an acorn and react to it. How we value it. If an acorn were conscious, knowing its potential would change the way that it might think and feel about itself. The Hindus use the greeting NAMASTE instead of HELLO.
The connotation for this roughly is, whatever your outer appearance, I see and greet the soul[God] in you. There is wisdom in this way of relating. Sometimes we can best help other people by remembering that what we believe about them may be reflected back to them in our presence and may affect them in ways we do not fully understand...perhaps a sense of possibility is communicated by our tone of voice, facial expression, or certain choice of words. Over the years I have come to wonder if it may even be communicated more directly, by our sharing of a private image in a mysterious yet tangible way...’
I could only think of Mary Magdalen in the garden on Easter morning. Jesus the gardener. But they greeted the God within each other. What a change! EASTER BLESSINGS! Alleluia!!
