New Year 2019

Welcome once again to Georges Wood and to a New Year.  In my blog last Easter I brought you a poem about a Butterfly which I know touched many of you. 

To put in context what I said in that blog, George as a teenager said to me on several occasions, “I want to go Home” – despite the fact that he was already at ‘home’ in our house. Some of us know what he meant. I think it goes beyond meaning that I want to feel safe, comfortable and I want to feel like I belong. I believe it is a ‘longing for one’s origin’ as in the ‘root’ of our being and is what drives many to search for the ‘true nature’ of who they are or to pursue what is known as ‘Self –Realisation’.  This would, in spite of George not being religious, make sense of his including in What I Want Now ‘Purpose, Love, Freedom , Insight, Perseverance’ and perhaps most of all ‘Peace’. 

Since describing last Easter how, “A few days ago I was blessed by this butterfly settling in my heart”, the sense of ‘pure love and joy’ within me has grown – and, surprisingly this butterfly has not ‘flown on again’, it is always there. When everything else is passing and changeful, this sense that goes beyond feelings (which also come and go) is permanent and unchanging except for getting stronger.  I now recognise that this, though not describable in words, emanates from what may be termed my own ‘true self’’ – synonymous and the same in essence with George’s ‘true self’ and indeed with everyone’s. Who among us wishes to remain a caterpillar when they can be a butterfly?

And here now some photos from the Wood from last Autumn showing the beauty of the Creation of which we ourselves are a part. Enjoy too the Peace in the blue space of the sky!

   

                              

Our first (and so far only!") acorn on Cecile's Oak

Hops! How come?

                                                                                                                                                                    

   

Happy Christmas! (Inside this fir-cone is God's Christmas tree present to Himself!)

All the above simply means that, from my heart, I can give true meaning to and genuinely wish you the Season's Greeting of “Peace and Love and Joy’. And of course a Happy New Year.