I love growing herbs. I love learning about their medicinal and culinary uses. This year I am putting them in the front window of the cabin, but until I get my plant stands they are happily sitting on my kitchen table. I make sure they have plenty of water (overwatering is a fault of mine with plants!) and they seem content to sit and grow.
Every morning, however, I have to turn them because every afternoon when I come in they are bent and reaching toward the sunlight that shines through my kitchen window, their nearest light source.
So as I sit here this morning drinking coffee and looking at my plants, with each stem turned and reaching for the light, I started wondering if I need to learn more from my herbs than just their cooking and medicinal uses.
Man it is so easy to be stuck. To be in darkness, to succumb to depression, worry, anxiety, and to get lost in the muck. To let negativity and “drama” take over our lives. To react to stress and go day after day looking in the same direction, walking into the same negative atmosphere, accepting “what is” and never looking around for ways to make it better. Why is that?
I think it is because as humans we have become so “lazy” if you will at all the things that are readily available to us that we have forgotten the concept of EFFORT! It takes EFFORT to affect CHANGE! Positive change is good because we all have a desire to be happy. My plants have no trouble following their instincts and finding the rays and warmth of the sun no matter how far they have to reach. It makes them grow and prosper!
If I make an effort to step around the negativity, take off my blinders, and look around me there are countless blessings that I take for granted every day! The beauty of Spring, the promise of a new day, the sunshine on my face or the ability to breath fresh, clean air. These are not material things! I cannot buy them at a store or have Amazon deliver them in two days. They are here, now, available instantly to me as a blessing from my God. All I have to do is to remember to pray and “Reach For The Son”, and like my herbs, I can find peace and happiness. God Bless!
“This is the day the Lord has made; let us rejoice and be glad in it.” – Psalm 118:24