Good Morning Garden

Someone said that living life is like playing a violin solo in public and learning to play the instrument as we go along. This saying describes the experience very well, but no one should worry about that. We are in this world for exactly that purpose – to learn.

While we are learning we do not expect to produce a perfect work. On this plane we are all students, and what matters is that each year we shall find the quality of our workmanship definitely better. People are sometimes depressed because their lives do not present a simple, logical, harmonious unfoldment, because their histories seem to be full of inconsistencies, repetitions, dead-ends. This, however, is only to be expected during the learning period.

Your life has not been rehearsed. It is an adventure, and a discovery, and a training, and it is the final goal that matters.

And let us not be weary in welldoing: for in due season we shall reap, if we faint not. (Galatians 6:9).

If, when we awake each day, we view that day as a once-in-a-lifetime adventure, never to return and never to repeat itself, then we would not be surprised or deterred if that day had unexpected twists and turns. In fact, we would anticipate and look forward to those surprises as part of the adventure. It would seem perfectly natural to hit a few dead ends, make a few wrong turns and encounter challenges. That is why we go on adventures, right? The goal is to push ourselves, to learn, to experience the new and to overcome, so that we experience our lives as a series of mountaintops.

Climbing mountains,
Z gardener