The Big Picture
For some persons I know a minor change in a bylaw of a peace organization is big ‘contentious’ issue. For someone close to me checking into a hospital for a mental health illness was a big decision today. For soldiers in war, making a quick decision to kill or risk being killed was a big decision today. For countless Americans and persons world-wide without work, food or shelter, today was another major struggle to survive. From the looks of the nightly local news, weather reports are a big thing for many. What is a big issue to one person might be no issue or a small one to another.
From the person with mental health illnesses I have learned that what is a big issue or not is all in one’s perspective. This person can connect events and see things that are real that I only see as random events in my perspective.
I think the attraction I find to gardening or in researching is that they both involved gaining perspective. In gardening one must look at the whole picture — weather, light, water, soil and seed when growing. In researching we can often find the bigger picture, the part we miss by looking at something close up.
Silence and listening also offer chances to see the big picture. When our mind, body and spirit are silent we feel and sense all that is around us. When we really listen we can hear what our mind was so busy with that it was blocking our hearing.
Keeping everything in perspective and seeing the big picture is the way of the garden and the way of the person who knows silence in life.
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