“The flower bends when the wind wants it to, and you must become like that-that is, filled with deep trust .” ~Rainer Maria Rilke
This is a hard lesson for me…trust. Trusting people, trusting myself. Especially at this stage in my life, with so much life lived. And with trust there must be patience. Something I lose with a lack of trust. But it is nature, again, where I turn to guide me. To show me how to bend with fierce winds.
To trust myself more. To know I can do anything I want to do. Why limit myself? And I trust more that things are working out as they should for me. Maybe not what I want, but what I need. Certainly there are lessons to learn here, and gratitude is the best response.
This garden year, I had an invasion in my front garden of a beetle that loves to suck the life out of leaves and dry up the plant. We chose to use organic means, especially squashing thousands of them. And to keep after them. Much of the front garden has rebounded, but scarred. And some will not bloom. But I trust that our efforts will contain these insects in years to come.
As I looked around my garden, I saw the scene above. And my gut said, oh yes let’s cut a few and make a small vase. My trust in my garden, in nature, in Universal energy keeps me going. Keeps me knowing this path is my healing.
In this little vase there is so much joy.
California poppies I seeded in early spring (pictured at the top of the post) with nigella.
And my hardy geranium pumping out those dark pink yummy blooms.
On the first day of summer, my husband decided he wanted to get some yellow flowers to ring in summer….I love this miniature yellow rose. So sweet.
He brought home a huge bouquet of them.
They brighten the whole room.
With these vases, I am joining in with the wonderful meme, In A Vase On Monday, from Cathy at Rambling in the Garden.
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