I`M TRADING MY SORROWS.

The Forest in my Garden

    

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It was Christ

Yes, it was He Who has been trying to teach me

A great lesson, but I was numb brained,

Until a few moments back.

He tried all of His teaching methods...,

Still I was dumb and dimwitted,

I just kicked like any school kid

Refusing to listen,

Unable to understand!

Then He took the rod yesterday,

And He plucked off the parasitic orchid

And threw it into the heap of dry leaves

Left at the corner to be burnt!

In all His fury, He cut all the garden lilies

As with a scythe, so furious was He!!

And I, in all my preposterousness, thought

He was mad!

But today, Grace came epiphanically… so to say,

For I had somehow decided to listen,

So I had shut down all the external voices

That kept enamouring me till then.

And I realized.
Yes , I  became coignizant of 

How the little orchid with its mild flowering

(That too, once in a blue moon!)

Had diverted my eyes away from the tall teak

That was growing so majestically, just in front of me.

Watering the garden lilies had taken all my attention away

From the forest that was growing in my garden!!

The potted pink flowers had confined me

To its little pots, which, by watering it

I visualized I could make a forest out of it !!!

The potted plants I thought would suffice

To meditate on the vast glory of God!!!

And that was what made my Beloved furious.

He wanted me to focus on the wild,

On the majestically grand tectona grandis

That now gives me the impression of a real oak

In a real Forest !

Thank You my Christ

Thank You my Lord

I shall listen, I shall see

But I need Your Grace.