Soul Lights
Mothers Day
Honouring one’s mother should be as obvious as breathing.
This weekend many people go one step further; so I am delighted to bring you a real-life story from a beautiful subscriber.
Enjoy……..
About 12 years ago when Mother’s Day came around I had nobody to give an actual card to because both my husband’s mother and my own had died years before, so I was feeling a bit sad and motherless – until it dawned on me that I had Mother Earth.
Every single morning since moving into our home I’d stood at the kitchen window looking out over the lovely greenery and the ocean and giving thanks to Mother Earth for such a blessing.
So I thought I’d wish her Happy Mother’s day that year, due to fall the following day.
We live high and have a tiered garden at the side of the lower floor, and up that side of the house and over that garden area a wild wind was almost always rushing.
I decided to dig a mound of dirt the shape of a heart for Mother Earth and put flowers over it – I made a nice shape and early the next day, I went outside to see what flowers were blooming – but there were none.
The only flower in the whole garden area was a pretty pink geranium with only two flowers blooming – however each bloom was made up of dozens of little petals with a tiny stem all joined into the main one.
I carefully removed the blooms and took them to the heart, then very gently pulled out each little stem, and with a pencil I put a hole in the heart and then the stem and pushed it all together……..there were just exactly enough to cover the heart!!
I gently sprinkled it with water and then knelt beside it and wished Mother Earth a ‘Happy Day’ with thanks and then kissed the soil beside it.
For 3 whole weeks the wind blew with a fury as it was Autumn when the winds blow most of the time…… and the sun fiercely dried the earth……. and then the rains pounded everything flat……. but not this heart with its fragile little petals which was right in the path of the wildest weather: it stayed fresh and bright for all that time.
A wonder to behold!
I knew then and there that Mother Nature was indeed grateful, and I have done the same every year since.
Sometimes I use leaves around the edges or ribbon grass or whatever I have to adorn it.
One time there was not a single bloom in the garden so I bought a bunch of beautifulwhite M.D. flowers and cut short stems and poked them into the heart shape, making a delightful high mound and display, and those flowers all withered and died within 4 days.
So it seems this blessing must come from our own garden.
Just the same, none since has lived a full three weeks, but they all survive at least two, which is remarkable and I never water them after the first sprinkling.
I believe that this is my Thank You.
This weekend it will be time to dig another heart mound……..
Blessings to you all,
Robyne
Blessings and hugs,
Les
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