Friday, May 27, 2016

Mosaics


There are mosaics everywhere in nature.
Sometimes they are planned and planted in park-like gardens, other times they just seem to appear out of nothing. Sometimes they have a clear delineation and build into a clear picture. Other times they are just like a big, stained glass window into the Heavens.

It is not as much a matter of nature planning things this way; it has more to do with the decision to look at things differently. To see anything in nature as a pattern that is part of a whole. To see how each individual shape builds into an enormous mosaic.

Sometimes it is easy to see that resulting picture. Other times, no matter which way we are looking at it, it is still nature. Beautiful, but without any discernible ‘bigger picture’, let alone a mosaic that might have to tell us something…

However, the interesting part of it is that what is true on a large scale ~ for instance looking down from an airplane and seeing all the different patches of farmland neatly fitting together ~ is also true on a much smaller scale. There are specific patterns in the way the leaves are connected to the plant. And looking at it, they will form the mosaic of that particular plant. The picture, or even the message of that particular plant…
Sometimes, when it is a plant that we feel an affinity with, it may have a message for us as well. Often though, it is just a part of the mosaic of nature.

And these sometimes truly tiny mosaics are everywhere!

Have you ever taken a close look at a dandelion after all of its seeds have dispersed? The beautiful pattern where the seeds were attached to it. And how this mosaic has a surprising difference in colors? Or at a sunflower, after the petals are long gone, yet before its seeds are harvested?

And even all the different shades of brown and grey in a freshly plowed field come together in its own mosaic, both on a small scale of, say, a couple of square feet, to a large scale of the entire field.

If there is any one message in these millions of mosaics, it has to be a message of life. A message of vitality, and the unfoldment of uniqueness.

And while we may not see it immediately ~ may not even be aware of it ~ we too have our own unique mosaic to show to the world. A mosaic that shows our energy, our vitality, and all of the aspects of life itself!

What does your personal mosaic look like?
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