PEACE

 

In the garden with hands in soil, sweat on brow, sun beaming on back, deep in the busy work of helping food & flowers grow you are at first completely focused on the tasks at hand but then you get caught up in a passing breeze, trapped by the sounds of tiny crawling things, fluttering butterflies and buzzing bees.   The body is still in motion but you are lost in nature, under its spell, completely deaf to the sounds of the world around you; the mind is still, breathing calm, spirit and earth have linked together as one. 


This is the peace gained from gardening that myself and many I've met deeply appreciate.  We may relay the experience differently but the feeling is the same.