Lessons from my Flower Garden

I have become aware of a feeling that I experience at various and sometimes odd moments in my life – a feeling that may best be described as sweetness.  It may occur when I’m doing something simple or I’m having a moment of appreciation.  A subtle yet powerful feeling of active contentment, being in the now, yet somehow filled with hope that the future I long to create is being created, is working, is forthcoming.  I would like to experience this feeling a lot more frequently.  When I am in a brief moment of this sweetness, I feel trust, faith, and a distinctive knowing that I have the ability to create my soul’s desires, and I feel assured that it is actually happening.  All this is a very fleeting moment of sweetness.

On the Right Road

After meeting with an acquaintance in Loveland CO, she suggested I take a different road back to Boulder, and said I would see signs for getting onto the highway. I drove for some time, and started to wonder if I had missed the turnoff.  I didn’t see a sign.  Maybe there wasn’t a sign? Without a GPS or a map in the car, I turned around and drove back quite a ways.  I took another road briefly – and knew that wasn’t correct since I was driving toward the mountains, and they should have been on my right.  I called a friend and discovered I had not traveled far enough.  I drove back onto the first road, and realized the sign for the highway was just a little past where I had turned around.   

I thought about the significance of this and wondered how many times have I done this in my life?  How many times have I turned around, doubting that I was on the right road?