As I walked this morning, I came across a snail and picked it up moving it back to the grass. It reminded me of a story I was told back in 2010, that a friend experienced in her garden.
“I was watering my flower garden in the early evening and I looked down. There near my feet was a small puddle and lots of snails nearby. Many times I have seen people just crush snails in their shells because they represent destruction to their garden plants. With that in mind, I notice a tiny snail about the size of my pinky fingernail. It is moving slowly towards the puddle. Wow, it’s a baby I think. Just as I noticed that micro snail, a larger snail approaches it. I call out to my daughter to come see this small snail. As we’re both looking at the snails, we realize the tiny snail is now on the back of the larger snail. How odd, I thought. How did that happen?
No longer were the two joined snails at the edge of the puddle, but heading back towards the dirt in the garden. Now we are engrossed in this rescue and are watching with deep concentration. Once the larger snail reaches the garden, there the tiny snail crawls off and climbs onto a leaf.”
Back to safety? Is that what just happened? Was it a parent snail taking care of a baby snail? The essence of life is everywhere. As I open my senses and grow in awareness of my gifts in the energy world, I feel; I see; I hear; and I know life abounds around us.
Amid the chaos and the clamor of fear and struggle, of the high speed of technology and the glitz of glamor, of the need to acquire more to satisfy a deep hunger for something, the competition of life, remember there is abundance in nature. Being outside allows us to connect with source, breathe and…
Remember our hearts beating inside our chests.
Remember we can choose to breathe deeply or shallowly.
Remember to use breathe to draw on patience.
Remember to take a moment to observe
Remember your choices
Remember cooperation is better than competition
Remember what love feels like
Remember the gift of a close friend
Remember the seasons come and go and
Feel gratitude for the sun shining
Feel gratitude for the sound of birds
Feel gratitude for morning dew
Feel gratitude for choices
Feel gratitude for your ability to persevere
Feel gratitude for the tiny miracles you see when you look for them.
Feel gratitude for your beating heart