Making Every Minute Count

I was taking photos a few weeks ago, to capture

the last flowers before the winter

when a butterfly

decided to enjoy them too!!

It made me think about 'savouring the moment.'

I don't know about you but I so enjoy the beauty around me and the simplest  flower

growing stuck in a corner

of a pile of rubble

can touch something deep inside me that demands

a response.....and a pause

in what I'm doing!

I am touched by its beauty and I take a photo

or two.......

I pause to enjoy the moment

and wonder what quirk of fate cause it to seed and grow in such an unwelcome place

Here's another that has just turned up

out of the blue !

I don't even know what it is!

(the yellow one above)

Others are ones that I have planted and I do

pause, frequently, to enjoy...

their colours and shapes

                    I'm not trying to be corny.....
                          but I am thinking
                 of all that is happening in my life     
                            and I wonder
if I am making the best of where I am at this moment

                      rather than worrying
    about what I have lost and what the future holds?!
                           .....and...yes... 
       I know it says something similar in the Bible!!



I so appreciate the loving and thoughtful

words that you have spent time

writing to me...

after my last post

and I hope to reply personally

to each one of you my dear friends!

It has made me think a lot and I realise that I need

to spend time just enjoying where I am

and what I have.

I don't mean that I/we shouldn't dream...

(I still need to learn how as.........

I seem to have forgotten!)

I remember well

watching my children...and, also now, grandchildren

hunkering down on their haunches

totally concentrating on watching an ant or....

some other bug

totally absorbed....

their whole world focussed on watching

whatever was happening

before them

I don't know about you..... but,

probably due to many responsibilities and 'things'

that are a source of worry and concern,

I feel that I have lost this ability!

William Henry Davies wrote

"What is this life if, full of care,

We have no time to stand and stare

No time to stand beneath the boughs

And stare as long as sheep or cows...."

I well remember.......

several years ago,

going for a walk with a friend.

We stopped,leaning on a gate, to enjoy the view.

There were cattle contentedly grazing

and a stream flowing slowly by....... while a tree

trailed its branches in the water

making little sparkles as the sun struck sparks

of light on the ripples

in the water.

Suddenly I realised that I was trying

to count the cattle!!

What a relief when I realised that.......

they were not my responsibility..

......they belonged to somebody else!!

I was free to relax and enjoy the scenery!

What am I trying to say?

Seeing the butterfly sipping the nectar from

 the flower...

Can I realise

what are my responsibilities

and what can I let go

so that I can

pause and take in the glory of the moment

and enjoy where I am

IN THIS PRESENT MOMENT!!

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