A Miracle May Be Just Over the Hill

(Time to read: ~2 minutes)

It was Lilac Festival time at the Royal Botanical Gardens in Hamilton.

I was looking forward to my first visit there. I have a special love of lilacs because my grandmother had a bush outside her house.

I remember the deep purple blooms and vivid green of the leaves standing out against the crisp white of her front porch.

As I walked toward the festival garden, I was amazed to see a dozen different lilac bushes.

The flowers ranged in colour from white through palest pink to intense royal purple. They released a heady mixture of scents.

I started to move among the bushes, studying the different shapes of the clusters, sniffing their various aromas. Reading the information about each one.

Suddenly I realized that the garden continued down over a hill and into a valley. Lilac bushes filled the landscape. There were hundreds of them! It was a truly astounding sight.

Creating Connection

This experience reminds me of 3 things I’ve learned about creating connection:

1. When I connect fully with all of what’s alive in me about any situation, there’s often a lot more there than I first realized.
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   And I haven’t fully understood myself until I’ve seen all of that.
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   Just as I didn’t fully understand what “lilac” meant until I saw all the different variations.
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2. Whenever I’m talking about a situation with someone else, I need to remember that any word can have very different meanings to each of us.
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   Just as if I, who had only ever seen purple lilacs, were talking to someone who had only ever seen white ones.
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   So I need to remain alert and curious to understand their perspective too.
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3. When we bring together our unique information and perspectives on the situation, and curiousity about other people’s perspectives, we can create a truly beautiful result.

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Warmly, 🙂 Glenda