Love is here!
For the past seven months, I’ve been driving back and forth to the eye doctor having my eyes tested, retested and glasses made and remade.
At one point, a prescription that was off from the start, was attempted to be corrected by adding a prism sticker to each lens. I felt like I was in a fun house at an amusement park and I ended up nauseated and seeing rainbows.
Another pair of glasses worked only when I looked up at trees. Everything else was blurry. I came to appreciate trees in my neighborhood that I hadn’t seen before.
I started reading Bible passages on asking God to help me see clearly. Clearly, my vision was distorted and it improved or worsened depending on which glasses I put on. I decided there was something spiritual at the root of the issue.
Isn’t that often the case?
And here’s the ah-ha. What glasses do I wear each day? Each moment? How do I frame my world? Reframe my world?
When I watch ants in our garden, I see some are lost, some carry more than their weight, some are heading for a hole and I smile easily, look up and say, “Wow, what a beautiful day!”
It’s easy for me to look away from ants and see the world around me.
With humans, I’d like to be able to notice the patterns, the chaos, the hurrying, and take a breath, sigh, and say, “Wow, what a beautiful day!”
Sometimes I can. Like the other day in the garden, I admired red polkadots on green ~ ladybugs all over kale plants. A group of ladybugs is called a Loveliness. Not a swam. Not a herd, but a loveliness. Isn’t that lovely!
I’d like to look at a group of humans and call them a Loveliness. Most days I can’t. Unless I’m watching children and then it’s easy.
Outside and within the ant march, there is a world that is made from love and is full of beauty. I’m not always sure about humans, but I want to be. Love is all around me. Sometimes I glimpse it and my heart fills with hope and wonder and I sense something eternal that is always here, always loving, always kind.
And then I’m an ant crawling into a hole and I can’t see. And I’m thinking about another ant who bit me, how much it hurt and everything is dark.
Somewhere a violin player is playing a sad tune for me, for my song, and it feels like everything in the moment and I’m thankful for the song.
But it’s not everything, really. The sad song is part of everything, but it’s not everything. Only if I’m an ant in a hole focused only on the ant who bit me.
If I put on the tree glasses, then everything else is out of focus except trees. And I sing a song about trees and how beautiful they are. That’s not a bad way to make your way in the world unless you’re driving. Thankfully, when wearing the tree-glasses, I was able to see stoplights that were above me.
Today, finally today, I celebrate that I have on new glasses that are working. Thank God! And no surprise, the song that arrived this week is called, “Love is here!” It all depends on which glasses I wear if I can hear the song, if I can see the song.
May we join together as a group of humans who are called a Loveliness. And share our songs and this love.
In Peace,
Kathleen
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