Are you as smart as a Tulip?

Where  I live it is mid winter.  We are well over a month past the winter solstice of December 21st.  This winter has been one of record snows with frequent  dumps of two feet or more.  Over the past few days there has been a slight warming trend and the sun suddenly feels a bit brighter than it has for the past few months.  As it warms the kitchen on the south side of my house,  it feels like a breath of heaven after such a cold dark long cold winter.  Winter, although far from over is starting to turn just ever so slightly.

If you are paying attention, you can sense that it is near the time when early bulbs will start there journey to the surface to emerge in glorious blooms and a riot of color.  Even though the emergence of Daffodils and Tulips is still several weeks away here in the North, I am aware of their awakening deep underneath the snow.

In the very early winter in November,  I was shopping and noticed one of our retailers had a lot of discount mark down bulbs at the end of the season. I ended up bringing home Tulips, and Daffodils in several types and colors.  I planted as many as I could right away as our ground here was not frozen yet, and we had no snow.  In the week I was doing this winter launched full force and I was unable to plant the rest. I stuck them in my refrigerator and planned to force them later on during the winter.

The other day, I pulled some  of the Tulips out of the package thinking I would plant them soon,  and noticed they were just starting to sprout with just a tiny fat green tip showing on the tulip bulbs. After resting quietly in my refrigerator for the past 15 weeks, something was telling the Tulips to start to grow.

The intelligence that plants have built into them amazes me in it’s simplicity.  What tells them it is time to sprout or time to emerge to the surface. Sun, warmth, or just a built in clock that signals them to grow.  They are always on time within a few weeks and put on a glorious display of beauty.

They understand their purpose,  and they perform with amazing energy and strength.

Contrast this to our species of humans.  We make things so complicated often and get our egos and minds so tied up in everything,  we often miss the whole point of something, get sidetracked, and have trouble figuring out any purpose for our lives.

It is a blessing bulbs do not have an ego like ours. Can you imagine.  The poor suffering things would be sitting there underneath the ground moaning and complaining about the lack of movement and feeling trapped by their circumstances in waiting, such as they are. They would totally miss the resting period, and the idea of just being and gaining strength. They would come out of the ground so exhausted from their mental battle with themselves and each other, that if they bloomed at all, it would be a pitiful display indeed.

Sitting down to meditate this morning,  an image of the tulips in my yard came into my mind. I could visualize them quietly resting, gaining strength, and just being.  Doing nothing and letting nature in it’s infinite intelligence direct them.  I sensed their tiny buds starting to just emerge. I could feel their patience and peace in waiting for the process to proceed.

I imagined myself a bulb under the earth just quietly resting there and gaining strength for whatever is to come.  I felt the importance of being and doing nothing in our path through life.  As I rested in this quiet place of being,  I felt peace, and strength. A feeling of surrender came over me.

Could we take a lesson from nature of the importance of being, of resting, and allowing ourselves to recharge and renew?  The seasons remind us that it is not only OK, but necessary to spend time in rest and quiet.  It is important to the success  of our efforts here on earth to rejuvinate, to go within, to listen to the still voice inside us that guides and directs our path.

Meditation Exercise

Sit comfortably in a chair, close your eyes, and take a few deep breaths.  Visualize yourself as a bulb underneath the earth resting and waiting gently and quietly.   Feel yourself quietly waiting and knowing that all is well.  Let go of any tension or let your breathing in and out relax your body.

Allow your ego, your mind, and any of the worries of daily living to be set aside.  Know you can come back to them, but for now just set down all these human burdens and let them go.   Imagine yourself as a bulb under the earth quietly resting.

Allow yourself to just be open to any communication from your higher self.   Rest quietly for 5 minutes or more just being open and receptive and taking in nourishment from your spirit.  If thoughts start to come back into your mind, just let them float off like clouds.

After resting in this place a few minutes,  you might make a few notes in a journal of anything you want to remember from this experience.

Prayer

Divinity,

Thank you for your many blessings

for the plants and growing things that teach us how to live simply in our world

Thank you for  rest and renewal

for  wisdom

for the strength and nourishments that are provided to me

as I take the time to receive them

Thank you for clarity to see my path ahead.

Help me to know and follow my purpose

As easily and simply as the flowers.

Remind me of the importance of being.

That it is as necessary as water and food to me.

I thank you for allowing me to rest and renew in you

So that I might bloom in glory when the time is right.

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