Meditation of the Week 02-21-07

I am going to recreate a story that was told by an acquaintance last night. (Thank you, Merit, for following your intuition!) The message within the story while being so simple and clearly stated was profound. I heard all kinds of “Ah-has!” going on throughout the room. For me, it solidified a concept that I knew in some ethereal sense, yet had never truly looked at and languaged…


There is magic in a flower…

First, you take a small seed that looks like nothing but a hard nut. Hidden inside the hard shell is all the information that the seed needs to become the plant. As long as that seed remains above the ground without soil, moisture or sunlight, it remains simply that… a seed.

If you want a flower, that seed must be planted in soil. It needs water. It needs sunlight. With the proper care, and patience, you eventually will have a flower.

During the “patience” stage, it appears that not a lot is going on in your little pot. All you can see is… well… dirt. But, beneath the surface, the magic is happening. The seed bursts open. It shoots roots down deep into the soil and the stem begins to grow.

Day by day, that little seed is coming to life.

The roots and the stem stretch in opposite directions – the stem reaching for the sunlight, the roots growing toward the moisture and nourishment. Depending on the type of flower you are growing, it could be weeks before you see signs of life bursting forth through the surface of the soil.

But then…

Suddenly one day, you see a brilliant green sprout poking its little head out of the dirt with hopeful anticipation. The stem begins to lengthen seemingly every moment. And then, before you know it, you have a bud which eventually bursts forth in colorful brilliance.

How does this relate to humans?

As Merit was relating her experience regarding flowers, she stated that one of her friends was marveling at the beauty of a flower and how wonderful it was to look at. Merit said, indicating the magic beneath the soil, “Well, yeah! But look at all the crap it had to go through to get to be a flower!”

Her friend sagely replied, “That’s not crap going on down there. It’s fertilizer.”

Our life truly is as we perceive it. It can be a lot of crap or it can be fertilizer.

©Angie K. Millgate 2/21/07