Detachment Reflection

Think about this...  You are a custodian of a garden.  And the Owner is God.  You were given the garden to take care with.  But the garden was already filled with flowering weeds, and some wild plants.  And you thought that it was the plants that you must take care with.  You water them, trim them, and you said to yourself you are doing your job.  The Owner comes now to fullfill his plan to landscape the garden.  And so he hired some person to uproot the weeds, and the wild plants.  And as the day ends the whole garden is now a barren field of soil.

You in your sentiments will be sad, for you were already attached to what you think are your plants.  You do not know the plan of the Owner, and in your loneliness you miss the plants that were uprooted.  But as the new day begins, the worker now fills the Garden with plants and herbs.  The worker now sowed some flowering plants, and planted new trees.  They put some stones for decoration and arranged it according to the plan of the Owner.  And so now you are care taker of an English Garden, a garden beautiful than ever.

In our life sometimes we see some things or person taken away from us.  Person and things which we thought we need, but in reality we are only fixated upon them.  We only think that we need them, because we are already accustomed in being with them.  But it is in this attachment, this crowdedness, and these preoccupations that we are becoming unaware or ignorant on what is God's plan for our life, the plan of God to the Garden of our existense. 

The kindness and mercy of God over our lives will always insist, because of his great love for each and every one of us.  There will be an opportunity in our lives wherein these persons,  these things, and these preoccupations will be taken away from us.  As the course of life takes away from us, our attachment it will be natural us to feel temporary emptiness, the barreness, and what we believe unfruitfullness.  But it is in this, that when we let go, and we let God take.  That God can only re-nourish our life.  It is in the barren soil of our loneliness there can only God plant His seeds. 

What we can do is only to trust, and believe that there will be more goodness to come.  And most of all there we must believe that the seed that God has planted is the best to bear fruit with.  Better than the former, and the best of all.  For as the new seeds of experience grows, it will be for the fullness of our life.  Yes, we may sometimes feel sad, and so be it.  Do not fight your emotions of helplessness, and sadness.  Cry if you must, for the tears will water the seeds the God has planted. And you will see as days passes by, you will become more stronger, you will  become more wiser, and you will  become the person that you are intended to be.  God wills our life to be the best, and his plans is more than the goodness we imagine.  Let us not just be merely content on what we believe the goodness of life according to our own preference.  But may we let God bring the best in us,  no matter what the price it must cost..

We are sometimes content on the weeds of life, weeds that when it grows are really good for nothing.  May we let God uproot the weeds in our life so that he can accomplish the fruitfullness in us, the flower of our existence and the beauty and significance of our life.