Day 53
“Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.” Lao-Tzu 

I remember the times as a child I was given a seed and a Dixie cup with dirt and directions to plant the seed, water it and then watch it grow. It was slow. But then all of a sudden the tiniest of green sprouts would poke through the brown dirt. 

In the same vein but even much slower when you look at the mountains and the shape of them and the valleys below and the rivers and streams running through them and stop to think of the time that it took create such wonders…you begin to realize this concept more fully…

“Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.”
So here I am writing once more about patience and rest or at least releasing a bit of control…it is not easy…to rest, to have patience… certainty not to release control…but we all have to do it from time to time…even the most powerful. What can we learn from nature? What can we learn from the camino? What lessons are there to impart wisdom to us?

“Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.”

This happens with both emotional and physical healing. It happens with getting in shape. It happens with learning something new whether a subject or a trade or language. Oh to be sure some things come “naturally” to some people but for the most part it takes discipline like that of water over rock or a seed falling to the ground and sprouting into a mighty oak hundreds of years later. 

“Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.”
Perhaps we all can me more patient with each other and the person we call self. 🙂
Buen camino 

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