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Wednesday, August 24, 2011

Wildflowers Growing

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This is the picture prompt for the week on GBE2 along with 'Growing Wild" as the word prompt and here are my wandering mind thoughts.

As I study this picture I see beautiful wildflowers in my favorite color combo for flowers. ( Purple and yellow, my yard is full of purple and yellow flowers, not wild, but rather planted and tended by my own hands.)  Here, I see God's work.  No human hands tending, lovingly or otherwise, just God's gift of beauty and unfettered growth.  There are no sculpted paths, no design plan and weeds just grow where the seeds fall with great abandon and fertility.  The blooms are startling amongst the green in front of the shimmering lake.  It is breathtaking and serene.  It is pure and unadulterated.  It is Nature in all her splendor.  Growing wild and free and there for all humanity to share or disrespect.  To photograph or paint or trample. He provides the canvas and we provide the appreciation or destruction.

It is exactly how we are created.  We come into this world free of all encumbrances. We have no moral code at birth.  We owe nothing to anyone.  If it is perceived that we owe our very existence to our parents, the obvious answer is, we didn't ask to be born.  They chose, either by actual decision or by actions to make this baby.  We are the 'gift' not the ever indebted product.

It takes a very short time for each of us to change into the people we are to become.  To grow wild.  Some of us do so and some of us never learn what wild means.  A soul roaming wild in this earthly world is free to experience life.  EXPERIENCE it not just LIVE it.  I feel sorrow for those who are unwilling or unable to let go of pain or sadness; they will never feel wildness.  I want to always feel pain when appropriate, always feel sad when appropriate and always then be capable of unbridled joy when it comes to me.  I haven't always grown wildly, not by a long shot.  Many years of my life were regimented years of doing.  Doing what I had to do.  Doing what no one else could or would do.  Doing what my children needed done.  Just doing, not experiencing.  In recent years, however, I have learned to Let Go and Let God.  One of the most important lessons I have ever embraced.  Growing Wild requires that I do that and then and only then can I see all the beauty around me.  Only then can I feel the love that showers me every single day.  I take the time to appreciate my time here in preparation for my next life.

I'm not in a rush to get to that next life, but I am ready when I am called.  I have lived a full and rich life with people who love me and have allowed me to share their lives.  Great friends and family have blessed me always.  I have had my share of pain and heartbreak and because of that, I love more deeply and with fewer reservations that I did in my youth.  I am growing wilder with each passing day with less human tending and more God's blessing.  It's a good thing to be in His hands today and always.

The natural beauty around me is not to be missed.  A free and loving heart is meant to beat in me and it does.

For us, just like the field of wildflowers...He creates the canvas for us to appreciate or destroy.








19 comments:

  1. Just by looking at a picture ... great post!

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  2. My wandering mind is easily inspired! LOL Thank you so much Claudia.

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  3. Great Job Jo, couldn't have said it better...really. I often look at pictures and think i wish someone would pick me up and put me there. Velda

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  4. Thanks Velda. I know some pics just inspire and even create desire, don't they? But overall, I like where I'm planted, for now.

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  5. Awesome write Jo you speak from the heart it shows much of the person you are, always felt that I want to live life and experience it, not just exist in daily grind lol had no clue what was in store for me but wouldn't have missed it for nothing. *hugs* great job hon

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  6. Thanks Jul...One thing I will not be guilty of is sitting on the sidelines of this life! Some of my experiences have damned near killed me, but I have experience! LOL

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  7. Beautiful thoughts.

    Joyce
    http://joycelansky.blogspot.com

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  8. Why thank you miss Joyce! Appreciate your time.

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  9. Just beautiful! I've spent too much time taking care of the doing, too. Still do, sometimes, though I'm much more conscious of not letting the doing take over the being now.

    "I'm not in a rush to get to that next life, but I am ready when I am called." A preacher friend of mine calls that 'having your bags packed' and he reminds his congregation of the importance of being ready, even when not feeling an immediate desire to take the trip. :O)

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  10. Beth...Thanks for sharing your thoughts and taking time to read me, it matters to me. Having a job always make the doing something you cannot dismiss, the secret is to love that job so much that it is part of the being! I surely had that.
    My bags have been packed since, well, mid thirties, I'd say. At some point, I just decided death is nothing to fear. Nothing I wanted to dread nor was it anything I wanted to jump into. It just is something I will do because there is no choice. So living as if I have only NOW has been my goal for many years. I am getting much better at that, btw.
    I have embraced prioritizing and dropping the race for perfection in all that I do. I seek now only to reach acceptance and comfort.

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  11. Beautiful post and very philosophical!!

    Kathy
    http://www.thetruckerswife.com/index.html

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  12. Thank you Kathy...philosophical...I am thinking I like that! ((hugs))

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  13. Lovely post. In touch with life, thats good!

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  14. peter...I appreciate your time and your thoughts, as always and being in touch with life IS a good thing, isn't it? C:

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  15. This is a beautiful post. I love the reminder that natural beauty around us is not to be missed.

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  16. AMEN how true is THIS..just like with marriage..why it dies..we stop appreciating the beauty. LOVE YOU

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  17. Let me know when your book comes out. I will be the first in line. I just live the bright light that comes from you!! -BJ

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  18. Oops. "live" should be "love" I'll leave the writing to gift people like you!! Hahaha

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  19. Langley...Thx...there is beauty everywhere!


    @Brenda...True enough gf! Love you, 2~

    @BJ...I have three books on CD, none in print yet. You can order one or all by letting me know and sending your mailing details to
    joheroux@gmail.com
    the cost is $5 plus $2 for maililng.

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