Last weekend my husband and I had a smaller, pandemic approved sized gathering for our annual Swedish Smorgasbord. A good friend of mine brought a Christmas cactus as a hosting gift. I left it on my counter that evening, transplanted it to a permanent pot the next day and assigned it a temporary space until the holiday decorations come down and it will be placed in it’s new home.
I went about my life for the next few days and this morning there were two new blooms.
Yawn huh?
But no. That little beauty which looks inanimate is working full time at this moment to bloom for this time of year. This plant’s whole existence is to make these flowers around right now.
I love this Albert Einstein quote.
I love being mindful. When I am, it is simply amazing to realize there is a secret life all around us that we often don’t acknowledge.
The plants. The trees. Animals. Our own pets.
They are living beings just like we are and are carrying out their life’s purpose.
Do you have a tree up for the holidays? Is it live? It is carrying out it’s purpose.
I just wanted to take the smallest of moments to appreciate life. All life. Even when we are not paying attention (almost always!), life is carrying on and doing it’s thing. Life doesn’t care who we are. We have almost no control of anything outside of us. These things at least seem to know it better than us. These things are all around us reminding us that we have no control and that life really is a miracle should we chose to see it that way.
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