Take Heart in Simple Pleasures

We can’t change the world, but it will change us if we let it. The turmoil and chaos can and will affect us; so people, beware!

It’s difficult to remain calm when everything around us is changing, and around the globe the grip of panic and turbulence is everywhere. The only thing we can do is forge ahead; our dreams and our life purpose intact.

What creative minds have to offer is exactly what the world needs now. There may be no market, and our financial returns may be small, but there is a void in the world that must be filled with beauty, curiosity, happiness and thoughtful insight.

Sometimes I think we (meaning me) watch too much news. According to newscasters, society in general seems ready to crash and burn. Daily routines can stabilize our momentum and give us quiet place to rest. This morning on my walk the mating and nesting birds were exultant. The air was filled with song. New blades of grass were filling in winter’s bare spots with brilliant greens.

I stopped to watch a Cyprus nursery where several herons watched over their nests. Two small beaks lifted from one nest and small wings began to flap. Soon they would be fluttering from branch to branch learning how to fly before leaving home.

In the pond, I counted seven “fish nests” in the shallow waters. Over each nest, a fish swiveled its silver body back and forth to ward off other fish and prey until her spawn emerge. All was peaceful on the home front. “God’s in his heaven; all’s right with the world,” I thought. Whatever happens on the news, around the world, or even next door, cannot change this “inner” peace. We can – we must find solace in simple pleasures.