Nature’s Gift
Sparkling and shining…beautiful and bright…wonderful and resourceful… It’s amazing how nature ‘gifts’. There are times we hope and pray for some things and expect all parts of creation to give up and present them to us but they don’t. In its own time and way, nature gives us what we desired, hoped and prayed for. They usually do not come directly or plainly to us as we prayed for; and so if care is not taken, we will end up missing them. I remember the very day nature ‘gifted’ me. And it’s so funny now as I look back and recall the events surrounding your delivery. I was dead angry that you were around and on my table that day. How could you have been part of the gathering? I fumed as I thought to myself. I rebuked the deliverer and orchestrator of your coming. How could you have allowed this unwelcomed visitor to be part of us? I quizzed in my mind. In order not to be seen as rude, I had to act nice which I did…to my displeasure anyway. You can imagin...