Simple pleasures. The cool air hangs lightly above my pool and the lounge chair that I am sitting in, making it impossible for me to believe I am in Central California, in June. Just two weeks ago the mercury rose to over 100 degrees making lots of folks wonder if this Global Warming things was for real.
Fortunately, Global Warming is the last thing on my mind tonight. Beauty, silence, still water, lilies in full bloom, have all made me reflective. My day was stressful. Not busy stressful, but a little fearful stressful. Know what I mean? The future. It loomed ominously near today and I wondered what it would hold.
Would there be enough money to pay all the bills? Would my soon to be grown up children find a passion for life, in life, that would see them through the hard times? Would I be up to the challenges that would come from who knows where, or would I buckle under the weight of my own self doubt? These questions dogged my thoughts all the day long.
Then, just moments ago I walked out the sliding door and into a new world. The lilies didn't really seem concerned about my bills and the water didn't even stir when my self doubt reared its ugly head. The world, or at least my little piece of it, seemed assured that, come what may, tomorrow was of no concern, at least for this evening.
I studied the lilies. How can they be so vibrant, yet still, silent, content? My eyes toured the backyard further, finding only contentment in the Queen Palms, Sugar Pines,Potato Bush. "The know, really know," thought I, "that all is well with the world."
The worry weight slowly slid off my back. I leaned back in my chaise lounge and dozed, just a little. Convinced, content, at least for one glorious moment, that I was in the care of the Master Gardener...he would fail me not.
"...they neither toil, nor spin," that's what I needed to hear.
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