This is my attempt at a lotus flower. I am sure it does not compare to the lotus painted by Monet. They are nevertheless wonderful flowers to see and such a variety of colours. But the lotus has so much more to tell us about life than its beauty.
It begins its life buried deep in the mud and waste materials at the bottom of rivers or ponds. Slowly but surely it reaches up out of the mud reaching for the light there it blossoms forth.
From those dark depths comes beauty. The Lotus has found a way of using the mud and water to sustain itself. Darkness to light from mud to beauty.
All plants need water, most need further feeding. Most gardeners know that the best feeding is manure.
Think about that? Is it not strange that something that is so repellent when stuck to your shoe is so important is the sustaining of life.
In the fields where I live everything is saved. We grow vegetables, we eat vegetables and we could give the waste back to the soil. It is so true when it is said, "Everything is only borrowed."
But the same is true of other things. Misfortune, failures and disappointments. If we understand the importance of mud and manure, we should also understand that nothing is ever wasted.
Everything can be useful if properly applied. Therefore even the bad things in life may become the fertiliser that will help us grow and become strong and like the lotus blossom as a thing of beauty.
Have a marvellous day.
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