We all know that there are things that happen out of the blue. For instance I broke my ankle unluckily, but I was given excellent nursing care, lucky. Is our glass half full or half empty? Sometimes its hard to distinguish, but looking for the positive even when things are negative is a skill which can be learnt.
I thought I would share a particularly lucky surprise I had last year.
Around my birthday weekend I visited my daughter and grandchildren, it is on May 28th, always half term week with a lot of things happening.
Because of an experience in my teens I always love rhododendrons, they are nearly always in bloom at the end of May.
My husband John always tries to find some for me and last year he had discovered on google that Furzey Gardens in Hampshire advertised. Along sleepy, sun drenched lanes, avoiding mounted horses, past thatched cottages we found Furzey. It is a garden that was rescued from the bulldozers in 1952 and now is host to young disability gardeners.
It was glorious, the rhododendrons were in full bloom and the blowsey flowers radiated their colours for the bees in the sunshine. We sat down half way around the circulating path by the pond and the resident cat jumped up beside us and stretched languorously.
There was a very pretty and modern teashop and as we refreshed ourselves a robin, quite tame , came onto our table asking for crumbs. Although we were not eating we found some discarded ones and he flew away happily to a nest, perhaps, in the nearby wood.
The whole afternoon was a complete surprise when we accidentally found such a beautiful garden filled with blooms.
In the centre was a thatched cottage and outside, a wooden cross with Christ. As we walked through such glory, we silently found prayers coming to mind and thankfulness for our blessings. The natural world is a beautiful gift from God.
This year, on my birthday, I shall be on a cruise, crossing the Bay of Biscay. I wonder if my glass (or my stomach) will be half empty or half full?
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