What a power!

I was thinking this morning. 

 

I was thinking this morning, about all my problems, about a busy week ahead. But then the sounds of nature in the early morning reached my ears and were touching my heart. And I chose to put all thoughts of the challenges and problems in my life aside for awhile and simply become aware of the beauty of the natural sounds that color the peace of the early morning.

 

We were endowed with, we were given the power to think. Not only the power to think, but at any moment in time we have the power to choose what we are thinking about. We can just decide to put our worries aside for now and get focused on the peace that surrounds us early in the morning, on the silence, on the lovely natural sounds from an awaking nature in our garden. 

What a power! What a great gift of nature, we humans received! 

It may be only us, humans who have this gift.

But how often do we use this enormously big gift? I have been guilty of living days after days, just focusing on the daily routines, without taking time to make use of this power to free our mind of all the things that bother us, and just become fully aware for a few moments of the wonderful peace that is ours almost every morning, every night. I have been guilty of not making time to notice the beauty that surrounds us. If we just look in the morning at the sky or some trees, and free our mind of our daily thoughts, we can enjoy the beauty of nature, the beauty of the birds. We simply have the power to do that, but so often we do not use it for days and days in a row. 

 

I have been guilty of not appreciating this power to choose our thoughts, when it comes to appreciating the love that surrounds us, when it comes to simple opportunities to be kind. How often I passed the beggar, hardly noticing him or her, because I was too absorbed in my daily routine of being busy with work and problems?

 

We have the POWER to think, the power to choose our thoughts. Let us be fully aware of that and make full use of it to create a life that contains enough peace, beauty and love for us to enjoy life. 

 

Let us not blur this power by the use of things like alcohol, or other mind altering  substances. Simply making time for peace, love and beauty is the true source of happiness. Happiness, true happiness is never found in the use of mind altering substances.

The beach

Breaking waves

Breaking waves from the azure blue sea
are touching the deepest of the soul of me
A flood of thoughts that are pure and kind
Inundate and refresh my heart and mind

The broad smiles of foam on the wavy tops
makes my problems light and worrying stops
Well-wishing roars of the waves so sweet
make me see the good in everyone I meet

Come, my friends, come to this beach too
And let the waves of the sea inspire you.

A flower on the path

This afternoon my wife's elder sister would visit us. She has four children and six grandchildren who all would come too. So around midday, as I walked along the path from my garden to the beach, I picked up a number of dry leaves that had dropped during a heavy bout of rain, early in the morning. 

I noticed between the dry leaves, a beautiful yellow flower that had fallen of the tree, that carries the name, sea-hibiscus. The tree is mainly leafy, but it carries a number of flowers, standing quite far apart. The flowers are yellow with an orangey pistil that is longer than the petals of the flower. I purposely did not pick up the flower and silently hoped our guests, of later in the afternoon would notice it. Actually I put it a bit closer to the path, very clearly visible. 

 While doing that, I got struck by an idea about life. Did not the universe (or its Creator) put so many beautiful things along our path in that big journey of life. But do we notice them? When I drive to work, there are literally so many things of beauty clearly visible along the road, but there are many days that I am so occupied with thoughts about work, about home, that I fail to notice them. Even inside the workplace, there may be not so much beautiful nature inside that place, but then there are the beautiful opportunities to make a positive difference in other people's life. And again there are days, that I hardly notice them and fail to act on them. 

I have made up my mind that tomorrow, I will have short reflection in the morning with the aim to try to increase my awareness of all beauty in our lives. I hope that I will be aware and notice the beauty of nature, the beauty of all opportunities to help others, the beauty of all the love and friendliness that comes my way...

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Safe links to other blogs/sites that may be worth a bit of your time:

Inspirational poetry https://aufiezophypoems.blogspot.com/

Some beautiful inspirational quotes:  https://quotesfromhans.blogspot.com/ 

A fantastic short story: https://afishwithawish.blogspot.com/2020/08/a-fish-with-wish-whole-story.html

A look at some beautiful skies: https://hansvro.wixsite.com/mysite-1/skies-seen-by-hans 

Beautiful flowers: https://hansvro.wixsite.com/flowersbyhans

Simply some essays about good things: https://abcofvirtues.blogspot.com/